Abstract: The aim of this volume is to provide a new comparative framework for the various literary historiographies which, from West to East, give Montaigne a "place" that is as unstable as it is contrasting. The discussion, which questions the notion of world literature, is twofold: on the one hand, the reception of his work in China, South Korea and Japan, linked by their cultural and geo-political history; on the other, the points of encounter between his thought and such eminent Asian figures.
