by Michel de Montaigne · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080709806
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«Sans commencement et sans fin: Extraits des Essais» is a selection of Montaigne's essays, published by Flammarion in paperback (255 pages, in French).
Montaigne does not aspire to impose certainties and distrusts overly secure knowledge: he prefers to open questions and show the complexity of the real. In these extracts from the Essays he addresses friendship and love, the clash between cultures, the miseries of public life, and the pursuit of pleasure.
This edition belongs to the GF collection (no. 980) and includes critical apparatus by Françoise Joukovsky: chronology, introduction, notes, glossary, dossier, bibliography, and lexicon.
It will interest readers of French philosophy and literature seeking a representative selection of the Essays with study material.
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous writers of Western literature; his Essais contain some of the most influential essays ever written.
