The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Christopher Kelly (Translator)

736 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography literary memoir politics dark tense slow-paced
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When Rousseau first read his Confessions to a 1770 gathering in Paris, reactions varied from admiration of his candor to doubts about his sanity to outrage. Indeed, Rousseau's intent and approach were revolutionary. As one of the first attempts at...

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