Is Montaigne a very open person willing to let the common person peer into his life as all is on the table, so he claims? Or could he just be jotting down his ideas on the person he would like to be or even possibly the person he assumes he is? Who knows, I don't know the dude. He seems like a good guy by the autobiographical paragraph he wrote and called an essay.
I'm obviously not a writer, so me saying that this is or is not an essay really don't matter at this point. I can say that, after reading Essaying An Essay there are some parts that seem to coincide with what is believed to be an "essay" and some that may not. Connecting directly to the reader, sure. Apparent ego, possibly. Revealing thoughts, I guess. All of these may be signs that point to a well thought out essay according to the latter piece. But who's to say he's not a cynical, selfish, fake? Could he possibly be jotting down the stream of thought about the person he wants to be, or even so much as the person he assumes he is? I suppose it's simply up to the reader to decide.
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