Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Guéhenno, J.

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London / Columbia University Press, New York, first edition, 1967, 1967

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2 vols, cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, xvi, 460 +xi, 316 pp. From the preface: "The whole conception of this book may have something slightly ridiculous about it. The idea of starting on it first occurred to me about fifteen years ago, just after I had finished reading all the volumes that had so far appeared of Théophile Dufour's splendid edition of Rousseau's correspondence. The more I had read, the stronger had been my feeling that Rousseau's life had not been as he himself had imagined it to be, nor as he had related it with exemplary honesty in his Confessions. I was unable to find any clear and straightforward reasons for my impression. The explanation was, perhaps, that we can never know ourselves, that life as we live it is always different from life as we remember it. I felt that Jean-Jacques' misstatements were somehow connected with the detailed nature of his narrative. I decided to look for the misstatements; to write a page by page commentary on the Confessions', to go even ." Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-49459

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London / Columbia University Press, New York, first edition, 1967

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Hardcover