by Jorge Edwards · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483832998
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«La muerte de Montaigne» is the historical novel by Jorge Edwards, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
In the Paris of 1588, amid the Wars of Religion, the philosopher Michel de Montaigne, mature and married, meets the young Marie de Gournay, an admirer of his Essays; the intense relationship between them leads him to make her his adopted daughter. Edwards combines this episode with a portrait of Montaigne public and private, and with echoes of his own biography.
Volume 753 of the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and for those interested in Montaigne and sixteenth-century thought.
Jorge Edwards Valdés was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastián Piñera presidency.
