The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an autobiographical work completed in 1769. This groundbreaking memoir reveals Rousseau's worldly experiences and personal feelings with unprecedented honesty, covering his life through age fifty-three. Unlike earlier religious confessions, Rousseau's work focuses on human experience in raw detail, including shameful moments like theft and abandonment. His revolutionary approach to self-examination established a new model for autobiography, inspiring writers like
Goethe and Wordsworth to follow his unflinchingly personal example. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau) |
| Credits | Produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 60.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 |
| Subject | Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 3910 |
| Release Date | Dec 6, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 9, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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