What's the best translation of the essays? The Frame one

it's not your translation
Montaigne was fucking retarded is the problem
fuck France

>>9664966
How'd you like to suck on my cock?

>>9664943
Screech is a lot better at getting Montaigne's point across in plain terms. Frame I believe attempts to convey Montaigne's syntax and elocution, but it is detrimental because English only obfuscates the author's beautiful language which runs clear and strong like a water spring.

Honestly, and I don't mean to sound rude or to belittle you, but you should read the essays in the original French. And I don't mean the modernized versions, or the ones which attempt to dissect the text and end up infesting it with an intolerable swarm of A's, B's and C's. I mean, learn the French language, and then spend the time to familiarize yourself with M's renaissance era language.

>>9664966
>Montaigne was fucking retarded is the problem

lol so true, i found a used copy of that and decided to read it to get insights into the origins of these shitty essay forms we torture young pupils with, and it was fairly crappy and not a bit insightful

>>9664943
>>9665749
>tfw am French and familiar with the context
Life has done me a great favour.