Essays - Hasan Ali Yücel Classics-Hardcover Book

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): "Know thyself" and "What do I know?" He is the father of the "essay" genre, which examines all aspects of humanity in a person by starting with basic questions such as. This creative process, which began when he retired to the tower of his farm with his books in 1571, first pushed Montaigne to take notes about what he read, and over time, the same notes formed the Essays (1580), and these personal writings continued to branch out after their first publication. Eyüboğlu's translations in this book, in a sense, followed a similar path with the work, bringing new pieces to the reader each time, from its first edition in 1940 until its version in 1970. Sebahattin Eyüboğlu (1907-1973); He is the vice president of the Translation Office founded by Hasan Ali Yücel and one of the most important cultural figures of the Republic period. The translations he made alone or in collaboration with "imece" were always at the pinnacle of world culture, from Khayyam to Montaigne, from Plato to Shakespeare. was one of their names.

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