Montaigne

Resumen del libro

'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.'Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions-with personal freedom, with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also, finally, lead Zweig to his death.

With the intense psychological acuity and elegant prose so characteristic of Zweig's fiction, this account of Montaigne's life asks how we ought to think, and how to live. It is an intense and wonderful insight into both subject and biographer.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p class="ql-align-justify" x{0026}lt;strong Stefan Zweigx{0026}lt;/strong (Viena, 1881-Petrópolis, Brasil, 1942) x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Nació en el seno de una rica familia judía, accedió a la universidad y llevó a cabo una exitosa carrera como escritor y periodista. Muchos de sus libros alcanzaron un gran éxito. Con la irrupción del nazismo, se exilió primero en Londres y después en Brasil, donde, ante la posibilidad de un futuro dominado por el Tercer Reich, decidió suicidarse. x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;br x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p class="ql-align-justify" x{0026}lt;br x{0026}lt;/p