What does /lit/ think about Montaigne? Anyone read his essays?

Fuck him
Fuck you
I hope you all fucking die
Jesus fuck
My little life can't be this shit

>>7636498

Would you fuck off from my thread?

/lit/ should like him more he spends a lot of time talking about farts. he's also happy tho which might count against him.

>>7636496
i tried but the french was too old-timey so i got annoyed and stopped giving a shit

Who gives a fuck about some old French fag?

he looks like dick masterson

>>7636496
Can't read Arabic

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>>7636823

>mfw France is now the Islamic Republic of France

>>7636849
kill yourself, frog faggot

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>>7636853

>kill yourself

That's haram, don't you know?

>>7636511
>Montaigne
>talking about farts
What

>>7636496
One of the most interesting and nuanced French essayists, along with Pascal, I love his views on friendship, especially the one he had with de La Boétie.

>>7636511
Retired early on his estate, basically NEET with loveable aristocrats and family to experience. Why should he be unhappy, that is the ideal.

>>7636496
His prose is absolutely godlike

>>7636886
>especially the one he had with de La Boétie
Completely heartbreaking
>“ Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne peut s'exprimer qu'en répondant : "Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi." ”

>>7636903
Yeah. It also strikes me how modern his views on existence and meaning of life are. It's basically a pessimistic, yet nuanced, form of epicureanism.

>>7636496
Yes, he's great, unique, delightfully meta and as far as we can tell honest and humble, what more could you ask for in a writer?

>>7636903
>>7636886
Is the Penguin English translation any good?

>>7636919
Yes it's good. Most people consider it the best. I have it and like it.

>>7636922
It's nice because it keeps the Latin and Greek quotes in the original as well as translating it to English in parentheses. Other translators/editions just give the English translation.

>>7636919
Can't help you with that one m8, i'm French. But if you have a basic understanding of the language, it's pretty easy to read.

>>7636496
The Essays are splendid. God-tier stuff.

I guess /lit/ doesn't discuss him a lot since he's very hard to hate.

>>7636563
Plébéien complet.

"Produicte fust au plus cler ascendant
De toute estoille a nous mortelz heureuse :
Et plus de grace a son aspect rendant,
Grace aux Amantz toutesfois rigoureuse.
Le Ciel voyant la Terre tenebreuse,
Et toute a vice alors se avilissant,
La nous transmit, du bien s’esjouissant,
Qui en faveur d’elle nous deifie.
Parquoy despuis ce Monde fleurissant
Plus que le Ciel, de toy se glorifie."

On Experience and On Education are two essays I continually return to when I'm trying to feel inspired to study/write.

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>>7636853
Stay mad friendo

>>7636563
Feel free to read the modernised French version, that's how most French people read Montaigne anyway.

Who do some newfags get so angry about pepes?

>>7636657
You said it brother

>>7637302
It's stale. Really stale.

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>>7638152
So the outrage comes from the attached images to people's posts not being entertaining enough for you?

Seems like a trivial thing to get mad about.

>>7638281
I thought they were images with attached captions
>japanese imageboard

>>7636919
>>7636922
How does it compare to the Charles Cotton translation?

>>7636880
his whole schtick is interviewing peasants about daily life. he's like heidegger if heidegger admitted people had assholes.