In the canon
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1782
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 610
A philosopher tells his entire life story in unprecedented detail, confessing his crimes, humiliations and desires alongside his ideas, and insists that total honesty, however ugly, makes him worth knowing.
I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator.
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