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Michel de Montaigne

Invents the essay by using himself as the subject under investigation, and stays honest enough to keep contradicting himself.

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This translation
Charles Cotton's seventeenth-century translation, revised by W. C. Hazlitt. Nearly contemporary with Montaigne, which is its charm and its difficulty; Screech's modern version is clearer and not free.
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Filed under Non-Fiction & the Essay in Literature.