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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533â92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigneâa collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tributeâaims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though itâs been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigneâs writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovativeâeven by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigneâs 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigneâs essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigneâs themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writerâs prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a whoâs who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genreâs potential new directions.
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