%0 Journal Article
%T The Confessions of Montaigne
%A John Jeffries Martin
%J Religions
%D 2012
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/rel3040950
%X Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession¡ªboth juridical and ecclesiastical¡ªwith skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne¡¯s Essays, with particular attention to ¡°On Some Verses of Virgil¡± and argues that, for Montaigne, a primary concern was finding a means of describing a self that he refused to reduce, as had Augustine and many other writers before and after him, to the homo interior.
%K Montaigne
%K self
%K confession
%K prayer
%K repentance
%K interiority
%K sexuality
%K sincerity
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/3/4/950