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Montaigne

Montaigne

by Stefan Zweig
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Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 26/08/2015
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A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century

Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise.

One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty.

ISBN:
9781782271031
9781782271031
Category:
Biography: historical
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-08-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pushkin Press, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
164.59x120.9x14.22mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer.

Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship.

After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.

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