Michel Eyquem de Montaigne has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is The Complete Essays of Montaigne.
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Summary
“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
©1958 Donald M. Frame (Translation) (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Les essais - Livre 2 et 3
Summary
"Les livres II et III des Essais de Montaigne de la présente édition sonore sont une sélection d'écrits dont les thèmes trouvent écho aux questions contemporaines. Texte fondateur de la pensée intellectuelle française, ces Essais ont fait l'objet d'un travail de réécriture pour l'oralité et devaient être interprétés par un grand comédien français. Michel Piccoli a accepté le défi de cette performance sonore." Claude Colombini-Frémeaux
(p) 2003 et © Frémeaux et Associés / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS 2007
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Summary
One of the most remarkable figures of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne was a brilliant French philosopher and statesman whose work directly influenced René Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Isaac Asimov and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a humanist and a sceptic, with an insatiable and wide-ranging curiosity. In 1571, on his 38th birthday, he withdrew from public life and retired to the library in his castle tower, where he assembled a body of work that is still highly relevant today. This collection contains more than 100 chapters, written in a surprisingly accessible manner. He weaves together personal anecdotes, serious intellectual argument, and quotes from classical Greek and Roman philosophers. While this style was criticized during his lifetime as being overly self-indulgent, he has since been credited with popularizing the essay as a respectable literary form. Using his own experiences and judgement as a lens through which to view the world, his essays cover such disparate topics as war horses, cannibalism, and ancient customs; as well as heavyweight ideas such as war, death, religion and truth.
Public Domain (P)2016 A.R.N. Publications
Dix essais
Summary
"C'est ici un livre de bonne foi, lecteur. Il t'avertit dès l'entrée que je ne me suis proposé aucune fin, que domestique et privée. Je n'y ai eu aucune considération de ton service ni de ma gloire." Montaigne De l'expérience ; De l'oisiveté ; De l'exercitation ; De la cruauté ; De ménager sa volonté ; Du repentir ; De la présomption ; De trois commerces ; Que philosopher c'est apprendre à mourir ; De l'amitié. Textes choisis par Denis A. Canal.
© Larousse 1994