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100			_aRousseau,Jean-Jacques
245		4	_aThe Confessions _c/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; edited by J.M. Cohen
250			_aSoftcover
260			_aLondon _b: Penguin Classics _c,1953
300			_a606p.
520			_aWidely 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.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aFrance Autobiography
650			_aFrench Literature
942			_cRBK
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