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The first man to write his whole self down, flattering nothing.
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About this edition
Rousseau set out to do what no one had done before him: to show a human being, himself, exactly as he was, vain and generous, tender and treacherous, ridiculous and sincere, concealing nothing shameful or flattering. Across twelve books he retraces a whole life, from a Geneva boyhood through wandering, love, fame, and bitter persecution, with a candour that scandalised his first readers and has held every reader since.
Written between 1765 and 1770 and published only after his death, The Confessions is the first modern autobiography, the fountainhead of the intimate, self-accusing memoir that Rousseau invented and few have equalled. It is also one of the great self-portraits of the Enlightenment, by the philosopher whose ideas on nature, feeling, and freedom helped remake the modern world.
Complete in twelve books, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
Details
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Translation: Anonymous (Aldus Society edition, 1903)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 702 pages