La vida imperfecta

After a youth ruled by hedonism, Michel de Montaigne left his post in the Parliament of Bordeaux and retired to his castle to devote himself to contemplation and study. The experiment, however, fails, and loneliness plunges him into a painful melancholy. His masterpiece, the famous Essays, is a response to this discomfort: Montaigne not only develops a vital philosophy inspired by the classical tradition, but, in an exercise of absolute modernity, makes writing the means to reconcile. -with himself and with life in all its imperfection. Jordi Bayod, a specialist in Montaigne's work and author of a reference translation of the Essays in Spanish, explores in this scholarly and clarifying book the life and intellectual trajectory of a writer who, in search of life, happy, he was able to reconcile the noblest aspirations of mankind with the inescapable finitude of existence.