Abstract
This work presents a comparison between the writing styles of Lucius Annaeus Seneca and Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne is influenced by the writing style of the Moral Epistles, which will be a fundamental source for the development of his Essays. From Seneca, Montaigne carries out a poetics based on the honesty; this is related with a textual construction of the subject. Following Foucault, the development of the subject by this narrative style is analyzed. This explains the origin of a contemporary genre such as the Literature of the Self. In this line, one ends up analyzing the influence of senecan style, through Montaigne, in some of the most relevant authors of the autobiographical genres.
Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, Alex Dressler and Elaine Fantham (trans.). Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The complete tragedies, volume 1: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia. The complete works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Chicago; Londo
