"Mientras queden tinta y papel en el mundo". Meslier, lector de Montaigne

Abstract

As well say Jorge Luis Borges, some authors beget their own readers, inaugurate genres and initiate a way hitherto unexplored. It doesn’t seems less certain, however, the opposite thesis, that there are readers who create their own authors. Indeed, according to the hypothesis that guides our work, the latter is the case of Jean Meslier, who took up and reconfigure several considerations made by Michel de Montaigne in his Essais, giving it a different orientation of the original, but not less legitimate. In a word, Meslier would have used the disbelieving premises postulated by Montaigne to hold irreligious conclusions. Outlined the thesis, we can say that this article is presented as a first approximation in order to show, through a few examples, some of those rewrites made by the priest of Étrépigny.