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Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughter for the two months they knew each other. He died four years later, after which, though scorned by intellectuals, she became his editor. Jenny Diski engages with this passionate and confused relationship between 'father and daughter', old writer/young acolyte, possible lovers, using both their voices. Much of their story is about absence of the people they love. In Jenny Diski's hands it becomes a fascinating tale. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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By sally tarbox on 5 Aug. 2012
Format: Paperback
Historical novel, based on the bookish Marie de Gounay who discovers the essays of Michel de Montaigne and resolves to meet the great man and to become part of the literary world herself - unheard of in the late 1500s.
'The more she read and the more Latin she learned,the more it seemed to Marie that an entire and good life might be spent in the company of books. Any other of the few possibilities open to her would be an interruption to her reading...She resolved to be neither a nun nor a wife. She could see nothing wrong with just reading books.'
Marie does meet the -much older- Montaigne, and becomes his 'adopted' daughter (a fact of which she makes much throughout the rest of her life.) Her own somewhat over-the-top literary efforts have limited success; most of her time is devoted to helping revise Montaigne's works.
While Marie certainly achieved things most 16th century women never dreamt of, her life was largely spent poring over manuscripts, and as such she is perhaps an unlikely subject for a book. A fallible character, she nonetheless remained a little 2-dimensional for me. ( )