
A Summer with Montaigne
Notes on a Man Without Prejudice
Antoine Compagnon(Author)
Europa Editions (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 21. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-60945-530-9 (ISBN)
Description
Is this a serious and philosophical book? Certainly. But Compagnon never pontificates and is never austere. Many of the anecdotes he chooses allow us to approach the world of Montaigne with a sense of humor and, most importantly, companionship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 53 mm
Weight
143 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60945-530-9 (9781609455309)
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03/2021
Europa Compass
€14.97
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Persons
Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary degrees from King's College London, HEC Paris, and the University of Liege.
Tina Kover's translations for Europa include Négar Djavadi's National Book Award-shortlisted novel, Disoriental, Anna Gavalda's Life, Only Better, and The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon. Kover is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for the translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt brothers.