Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
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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.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics),Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Patrick Coleman,Angela Scholar,Oxford University Press, USA,0192822756,1712-1778,18th century,Authors, French,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,European - French,General,Historical - General,Literary,Literary Criticism,Performing Arts/Dance,Philosophers,Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,,Biography: general,French,Literary Criticism & Collections / French,Literature/English | World Literature | France,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries,Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900,c 1800 to c 1900
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