"The publication of the Confessions in 1782… only reinforced the intensely personal bond that Rousseau's countless disciples felt with him… nothing could shake their faith in his essential moral purity. "Claiming to present a man in 'all the truth of nature,' he describes in vivid and minute detail, and with complete candor (disclosing even his meanest actions and his sexual abnormalities), the incidents of an agitated life, his reactions to them, and his spiritual development" (Reid, 136).
Published posthumously, the Confessions, supplemented by Reveries of the Solitary Walker, is the precursor of the modern autobiography. , 471,, 279,, 300.įirst edition of the first six books of the Confessions and the Reveries, Rousseau’s autobiographical masterpiece, handsomely bound. Octavo, period-style full brown calf gilt, raised bands, red leather spine labels, uncut pp. Rousseau, Suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitarie. “I HAVE RESOLVED ON AN ENTERPRISE WHICH HAS NO PRECEDENT, AND WHICH, ONCE COMPLETE, WILL HAVE NO IMITATION”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROUSSEAU’S CONFESSIONS, UNCUT COPY
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