Saturday, May 25, 2024

June 28, 2024—Essays, by Michel de Montaigne

The next meeting of Great Books KC will be June 28, 2024.  We will discuss three selections from Essays, by Michel de Montaigne — "Of Cannibals," "Of Friendship," and "Of The Education of Children".  

Meeting Date & Time:
Date: Jume 28, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm

 Hybrid Zoom/In-Person Meeting:
— Attendance in person Plaza Branch Lib., Small Meeting Room.
— Zoom attendance, link sent to mailing list.
— Request mailing list addition, send to GreatBooksKC@gmail.com

About Montaigne's Essays:
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics. They have exercised an important influence in thought and style on both French and English literature.

2 comments:

Clif Hostetler said...

My review of the three essays:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6573686926

Clif Hostetler said...

On June 28, 2024 the following participants met to discuss three of Montaigne's Essays.
The following attended in-person:
Bernard Norcott-Mahany
Clif Hostetler
Craig Carter
The following attended by Zoom:
Bill Randolph
David Tostenson
Don Pepper
Ed Doering
Gregory Brown
Judy Covell
Rex Nowland
Tom Brown
Valerie Pedrick