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Ah, but what was dead?

Just over three years now, for the first time I dared to approach the work of Montaigne. prevention could assume the language of the sixteenth century collapsed in the early pages of trials and d ince then, continues to accompany me, I say that every day, ... but almost.

In those days, also began work this blog and as a result of this coincidence, I published a entry ( http://jancarti.blogspot.com/2008/05/montaigne-el-bloguero.html ) in which I dared to qualify Montaigne as a sort of "blogger avant la letter" . Over time, interest in the founding of the essay genre, has deepened in me and my attention any article about him or his work, which I have access. Without going any further, just three weeks ago, I knew Anthony Gottlieb, the historian of ideas, wrote recently in The New York Times on the figure of philosopher Michel de Montaigne as a precursor of bloggers. My dare was shared with a British academic all!.

More recently still, has published the latest novel by Jorge Edwards, entitled The Death of Montaigne.

Knowing publication, quickly came to my mind two questions: when will I get my hands? and the second and most important, Ah, but what was dead?.

The novel is both the fact of death and, above all, to frame the historical moment in the life of Montaigne, its status as a contemporary of another Michael, the de Cervantes, his position in the religious wars between Protestants and Catholics, his relationship with a woman Gurnay Marie, their lifestyle, their status as royal councilor, mayor of the city, as many of the aspects of your life and your work and reflections of the author and at the present time, passed through the sieve of the author's views of the trials.

share with one's Jorge Edwards, a series of opinions as to

and l language tests , it never bores the reader, just annoying when it stops

and above all, that Montaigne means freedom, reason, humanism top and, in some sense: reading and writing.

But I can not agree on who has died. I never died and that at the present moment his presence, his work and his views are more necessary than ever.