Confessions

• Autore: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
• Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (708 pages)
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
• Altri autori: ColemanPatrick ScholarAngela
• Nota di contenuto: COVER PAGE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- A CHRONOLOGY OF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -- CONFESSIONS -- APPENDIX: Preface to the Neuchâtel Edition of Confessions -- EXPLANATORY NOTES.
• Sommario/riassunto: In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.
• Titolo autorizzato: Confessions
• ISBN: 0-19-106952-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911120147503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford World's Classics Series