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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: SMK Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 3.4 cm

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Rare edition with unique illustrations. In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau and The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Confessions of Jean Jacques RousseauThe Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • Title

    The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • Author

    Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    SMK Books

  • Published

    April 2018

  • Weight

    990g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781515420682

  • ISBN-10

    151542068X

  • Eden Code

    4877225

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