As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay.
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Montaigne’s essays chart the course of twenty years of self-investigation, Jane Kramer writes.
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The essay is French, but essayists are English. What can it mean?
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A familiar essay is a short prose composition characterized by the personal quality of the writing and the distinctive persona of the essayist.
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“Don't fool yourself with excuses about being too busy. . . . During the course of writing his essays, Montaigne served two terms as mayor, traveled internationally as a dignitary and was a confidante of the King. He never let any of that stop him from his real job. . . .”
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Montaigne invented the essay genre after deciding he wanted to write a literary self-portrait of himself. This turned out to be an impossible task.
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Since Montaigne adopted the term "essay" in the 16th century, this slippery form has resisted any sort of precise, universal definition.
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