Bibliograph

Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated by Angela Scholar ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

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Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated by Angela Scholar ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxv)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Confessions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

291098227

Responsibility statement

Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated by Angela Scholar ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Summary

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 analyzes 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 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

Target audience

adult

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Contributor

Creator