%0 Journal Article %T Anarquia do ensaio (entre experi¨ºncia e desastre) %A Eyben %A Piero %J Alea : Estudos Neolatinos %D 2011 %I Unversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S1517-106X2011000200007 %X this paper discusses the problematic imposed by the relationship between writing and experience in the constitution of the essay form. from a semantic analysis of the remarks present in montaigne's essais, issues like the relationship between sense and absence, clarity of argument and mobility of a sensory language, characteristics of an ethics of writing, are brought up. %K essay %K writing %K experience. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-106X2011000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en