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Another Guardian ramble of mine, this time about Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, and the Viennese Skandalkonzert of 1913, all connected with the excellent Rest is Noise festival about to begin at the South Bank Centre in London.
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
— published 2010 — 19 editions |
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How to Live Or a Life of Montaigne
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The English Dane
— published 2005 — 2 editions |
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The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers
— published 2001 — 5 editions |
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The English Dane: From King of Iceland to Tasmanian Convict
— published 2011 |
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“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so ‘covered and wrapped in a taciturn and incommunicative prudence, defending themselves from the contagion of an unknown atmosphere’ that they noticed nothing at all.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
“As the modern critic David Quint has summed it up, Montaigne would probably interpret the message for humanity in Christ’s crucifixion as being “Don’t crucify people.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
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