01420nam a2200205Ia 4500 20261007120236.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780140440331 23 928 ROU Rousseau,Jean-Jacques The Confessions / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; edited by J.M. Cohen Softcover London : Penguin Classics ,1953 606p. 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 Émile. 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. Literature France Autobiography French Literature RBK 69132 69132 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 928 ROU G8009 2026-06-08 15:45:18 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection