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When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne And Being In Touch With Life (2011)

by Saul Frampton(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0571234577 (ISBN13: 9780571234578)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: I picked up this book while visiting London, and it became one of the little joys of that trip. Intrigued by the title and the words "being in touch with life" in the title, I enjoyed this introduction to Montaigne. His approach to life and living were welcome thoughts I embraced and soaked up when I read the book in 2011. "Living happily...is the source of human contentment." Also, I found reading about Montaigne's influence on Shakespeare to be enlightening.
review 2: After thoroughly enjoying Sarah Bakewell's 'How to Live? A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer' (q.v.)I'm on a Montaigne spree, and this book is another quite recent account of him. I like it but compared to the lively and engaging Bakewell book, it's a bit clu... morenky and reads like a PhD thesis that has been edited for a general readership. In fact, I think it is. However, it is quite readable and he brings out different facets of Montaigne that the Bakewell book doesn't, so the net result is that I'm now reading the Essays by the man himself. That should keep me busy for a year or two. less

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