/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7061051]

Where should I start in this bad boy?

[Anonymous No.7061060]

Usually I'd say page 1, but here this is an author "à sauts et à gambades" so start literally any page you want.

[Anonymous No.7061071]

>>7061051

>author only has one major work

[Anonymous No.7061500]

>>7061051
with the introduction you idiot

[Anonymous No.7061504]

>>7061071
>the complete works
>complete works
>works
>WORKS

[Anonymous No.7061507]

Don't. He is a pleb apologist and a french faggot famous for being a clapping monkey in salons. Sooner people find him funny, but go read comedy. It's platitudes and cancer

[Anonymous No.7061508]

In defence of raymond sebond

[Anonymous No.7061513]

Anywhere. Just pick an essay whose title sounds interesting.

[Profane !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.7061524]

He is my favorite essayist and you don't have to read them in order. His most famous is probably 'On Experience' but my favorite is 'On the Education of Children'

He's also a very self-deprecating author and frequently cites Plutarch and Seneca as being the driving force behind his essays (similar to Dante's reverence for Homer and Virgil) which I always appreciate. He's inspiring to read and I carry his essays around in my backpack at uni for whenever I'm bored and have downtime between classes

[Anonymous No.7061527]

>>7061507
>apologist
>famous for being a clapping monkey in salons
>Sooner people find him funny
>Sooner
>people find him funny

Wut ? I really think you're mistaking Montaigne for someone else.

[Anonymous No.7061533]

>>7061507
>being this contrarian
you're making a mockery of yourself

[Anonymous No.7061540]

>>7061507
Salons didn't exist in the 16th century you tard

[Anonymous No.7061613]

>>7061524
>inspiring

He calls himself a cynic, but I'm convinced he was thoroughly depressed when he was writing his essays.

[Profane !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.7061640]

>>7061613
Reading the bits about the importance of incorporating what you learn through text into your experience and utilizing this to improve your character always gets me going. He was certainly a cynic in some regards but I found his ideas of self-knowledge to be great. They seem to preempt Hegel in a way, meaning that he raises the idea that he can't write about himself because he has already changed once it has been written down (similar to Hegel's notion that you can't ever know yourself because you just changed). Plus, they weren't cynical at all. He puts a nice optimistic spin on it, suggesting that the more you actively try to improve your virtue and your character (and know yourself), the happier you will be.

Very inspiring IMO

[Anonymous No.7061941]

How come nobody evertalks about Torquato Tasso? I thought u dudes r supposed to be patrish

[Anonymous No.7061950]

>>7061941
oops i meant to make a new thread oh well

[Anonymous No.7061985]

>>7061950
Make it, Tasso is good material.

Which means your post will be ignored

[Anonymous No.7062082]

>>7061985
Montaigne is the man and this isn't a bad thread

[Profane !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.7062088]

>>7061950
>>7061985
Where to start with Tasso? I only know him through TCoL49 and explicit reference in Italian lit

[Anonymous No.7062134]

>>7062082
Sure. But I wouldn't mind a Tasso thread to make company.


Anyone can redpill me on Montaigne's prose ? I heard it was deliberately rough, if that makes sense.

[Anonymous No.7062163]

On.
Cannibals.

Pretty funny little essay btw lads.

[Anonymous No.7062174]

>>7062088

Jerusalem Delivered fam tbh

Then, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Finally, Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

After that, you will be a bona fide patrician.

[Profane !!aA0k1/YgCq9 No.7062180]

>>7062174
I've read the latter but I'll check out Tasso's work