TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rousseau,Jean-Jacques  
TI  - The Confessions
SN  - 9780140440331
U1  - 928 ROU 23
PY  - 1953///
CY  - London
PB  - : Penguin Classics
KW  - Literature
KW  - France Autobiography
KW  - French Literature
N2  - 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
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