About the book: 2020 / One of the outstanding literary critics of our time, Professor of the College de France Antoine Compagnon (born 1950) devoted two large studies to Michel de Montaigne, and in In 2012, he prepared for the France Inter radio station a series of forty short programs reviewing the main themes of the Experiments - the only (not counting letters) work of Montaigne, which made him one of the founders of the worldview of the Modern Age and the creator of the essay genre. The book Summer with Montaigne, compiled from the texts of these programs, was published in France a year later and became a bestseller. Walking blithely through the bizarre and vast landscape of Opytov, as if through his hometown, Companion conveys to us - his companions - the pleasure of recognizing its monuments and curiosities.