Scholar's Life, A
From Socrates, Confucius, and Cicero to Petrarch, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and hundreds more, a scholar’s life is told as never before in this remarkable literary history. William Marx holds the Chair of Comparative Literature at the Collège de France. This book is translated from Vie du lettré (Minuit, 2009), recipient of the Montyon Prize of the Académie française in 2010.
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What is a lettered person? How does such a person eat, sleep, work, love, live, and die? From Socrates, Confucius, and Cicero to Petrarch, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and hundreds more, a scholar’s life is told as never before in this remarkable literary history.
William Marx holds the Chair of Comparative Literature at the Collège de France.
This book is translated from Vie du lettré (Minuit, 2009), recipient of the Montyon Prize of the Académie française in 2010.