Denemeler

by Michel de Montaigne

Her anõ deneyerek š_renen ruhumla, kendi kendimin õra_õyõm. Ortaa_õn kanlõ ve zorlu yõllarõnda, yazmak iin kš_esine ekilen Montaigne, kendini bšyleÊÊifade eder. Ardõndan bu do_ru sšzlŸ kitabõ okura uzatõlmõ_ candan bir dost eli diye sunar. Denemeler sekisi, insan duyarlõ_õnõn, e_ilimlerinin, alõ_kanlõklarõnõn bir tŸr envanteridir.

De_indi_i konular ufuk aõcõ niteliktedir. Montaigne'in bu yapõtõ, yayõnlandõ_õ dšnemden gŸnŸmŸze 500 yõllõk bir sŸre boyunca sanatta,ÊÊedebiyatta, felsefede birok ustaya ve kimi dŸ_Ÿnce akõmlarõna esin kayna_õ olmu_, dillere yerle_en birok deyim ve anlatõm biimine _ekil verdi_i iin ba_ucu kitap sayõlmõ_tõr. Ê (Tanõtõm BŸlteninden) Ê

232 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, from William Shakespeare to René Descartes, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Stephan Zweig, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a conservative and earnest Catholic but, as a result of his anti-dogmatic cast of mind, he is considered the father, alongside his contemporary and intimate friend Étienne de La Boétie, of the "anti-conformist" tradition in French literature.

In his own time, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman then as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne would be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt which began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sais-je?" ("What do I know?").

Remarkably modern even to readers today, Montaigne's attempt to examine the world through the lens of the only thing he can depend on implicitly—his own judgment—makes him more accessible to modern readers than any other author of the Renaissance. Much of modern literary nonfiction has found inspiration in Montaigne, and writers of all kinds continue to read him for his masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal storytelling.