Reviews for The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne

The average rating for The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-11-15 00:00:00 Clinton Stewart Lowenthal has constructed an interesting pseudo-autobiography of Montaigne by picking snippets of his essays/travel writings and organizing them into theme-based chapters. Actually interesting, and it does inspire this reader to go back to the original essays(which, unfortunately, are not always as nicely organized).

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-23 00:00:00 Cindy Davis I loved the line "I prefer to forge my mind, not furnish it." It is going on my inspiration chalkboard. In this chopped up "autobiography" Montaigne manages to comes through -- funny, insecure, profound, pompous, honest, contradictory and hilarious, but I think I would have done better to just read his essays. The thematic clumping, in roughly chronological order is a little forced, as you might suspect. The book can't do justice to the natural directions his rambly mind takes, and every time I wanted to follow him down a path I was made to jump to another, on and on, paragraph after paragraph.