Title : The Confessions - Books I to IV - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book

Summary :

I am undertaking an undertaking which has never been preceded and whose execution will have no imitator. I want to show my fellow men a man in all the truth of nature; and that man will be me." In these first four books of his Confessions, Rousseau recounts his youth, from his birth (1712) until the age of 19 (1731). He recounts his difficult childhood in Geneva - he, the son of a modest watchmaker, motherless - and his flight to escape his environment; his travels; finally his providential meeting with Madame de Warens, an older woman with whom he immediately falls in love. It will be for him a new birth, and the entry into adulthood. More than thirty years later, Rousseau looks at Jean-Jacques. He recounts his childhood sorrows, his adolescent joys, confesses his petty thefts ("I was therefore a rascal"), relives his first romantic emotions, and plunges back into his dazzling discovery of reading, which saved him from boredom ("I did not choose: I read everything with equal avidity"). He makes, in in short, the assessment of his apprenticeship in life. In this extraordinary quest for an identity, a true novel of origins, Rousseau tells his story, Rousseau reinvents himself.

• EAN : 9782070403738
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