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Montaigne expresses strong doubt in the Essais about intrusions of memory. For Montaigne scholars, essay I: 9, “Des Menteurs,” provides a particularly fascinating study, as the essayist ties the act of lying with that of remembering and proposes a solution to the problem of his own defective memory in the dialectical nature of the writing process. While deviating from the initial subject of his essay,...
To read Montaigne's Essais is to challenge radically one's notion of literary beginnings. For those of us concerned with Montaigne's modus scribendi, a view such as Compagnon's that allows for both brevitas and copia in the Essais, casts a helpful light on why the essayist would begin the same essay more than once, as he revised his text in 1588 and thereafter. Two of his early essays, "De la...
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