The Confessions
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a significant work published by Penguin Publishing Group on August 30, 1953. This reprint edition spans 608 pages and is presented in English. Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, it offers a profound exploration of Rousseau’s life, reflecting on his early years and the development of his philosophical and political ideas, as well as his conflicts with French authorities.
Readers will find in The Confessions a vivid account of Rousseau’s experiences, including his beliefs about childhood innocence and the societal inequalities he perceived. The narrative captures his adventures, struggles, and achievements, providing acute psychological insights into his character. This work is an essential piece of literary history, influencing notable figures such as Proust and Tolstoy, and it encompasses themes related to biography, philosophy, and literary criticism.
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Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy – from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Emile. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others.
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