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It was radical at the time. It isn’t now. Now we can hardly stop public figures from stripping naked before us with autobiographies that are designed to shock and titillate. But when Rousseau wrote this he was doing something that hadn’t been done before: writing the truth about his youth.
This book’s one of those “important” books that anyone serious about literature can bore the backside off a bus with, one of those that makes you think the publishers of the 1001 series should have changed thei ...more
This book’s one of those “important” books that anyone serious about literature can bore the backside off a bus with, one of those that makes you think the publishers of the 1001 series should have changed thei ...more
About 75% of the way through and wonder if Rousseau was paranoid or if there really was a plot to discredit him within society.
Interesting either way to get an idea of what was going on in Rousseau's head, and to gain insight into the behaviour and culture of French society. ...more
Interesting either way to get an idea of what was going on in Rousseau's head, and to gain insight into the behaviour and culture of French society. ...more
I re-read this book after many years and I was delighted by the descriptions of St Peter's Island. I never dreamed when I first read this book 40 years ago that I would be living right opposite the island and I would know every path mentioned intimately. The philosophical wars between Voltaire and Rousseau were also of great interest to me although I found it necessary to do some extra background reading to understand the nature of the conflict.
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Such a books are very very tiring to read, cause many things had changed since it was published.
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