Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime but no longer - this

but no longer - this book is awash with insight

' - JO ELVIN

his account of the jarring miscomprehensions between himself and his parents

exploring love

winner of the Prix M�dicis and author of Death and the Penguin`This book is an extraordinary act of moral courage

Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime but no longer - thisHe who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.'Stefan Zweig was already an migr driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions with personal freedom, with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also,