Has anyone ever read essays of Montaigne?

NexusFi · 2022-07-17T16:43:00-04:00

I have, actually, but it was an extremely long time ago and I don't remember a thing about them, other than short and witty. I think witty. Short, anyway. :becky: It was a long time ago. I looked on my shelf and there is still a copy there, one of many dragged around from place to place since college, and not necessarily looked at since then. It's the Donald M. Frame translation, Stanford University Press. I assume it's a good one since anything I acquired back then had some connection with some …

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Has anyone ever read essays of Montaigne?

July 17th, 2022, 04:43 PM

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Absolute long shot here, unlikely anybody is interested in such a topic, but wondering if anyone has ever read Montaigne, or familiar with this type of writing?

If so, which translation did you read and what did you think of that translation?

Long time ago. Then I replaced them with Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca.

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