A Scholar's Life

From Socrates, Confucius and Cicero, to Petrarch, Emilie du Chatelet, Nietzsche and hundreds more, a scholar's life is told as never before in this remarkable literary history. This book is translated from Vie du lettre (Minuit, 2009), recipient of the Montyon Prize of the Academie francaise in 2010.

De la Socrate, Confucius si Cicero, la Petrarca, Shakespeare, Nietzsche si alte sute de opere, viata unui savant este relatata ca niciodata pana acum in aceasta remarcabila istorie literara. Aceasta carte este tradusa din Vie du lettre (Minuit, 2009), laureata a Premiului Montyon al Academiei Franceze in 2010.