![]() ![]() So in the confessions the reader, in more than 60 short entries, learns all sorts of things about Rousseau the man, his childhood, his first love, his travels, the things he likes and dislikes, his love of Switzerland. They are seminal because they record the author’s personal and, above all, secular experiences, his childhood and his existence as a social being in society. ![]() But while Augustine’s work is a religious one, which can be understood as a confession of guilt as well as a Christian confession of faith, Rousseau’s confessions are of a different nature. The title of the “Confessions” openly refers to what was the most famous autobiography at the time, the “Confessiones” of Saint Augustine. In this edition they are completed by a collection of loose manuscripts, titled “Mein Bildnis” (“Self-portrait”), to which we will pay special attention in this review. These confessions, often referred to as the first modern autobiography, are first published in several volumes in 17. This book in the Manesse series of world literature is based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Confessions”, autobiographical records of the born Genevan that span the first 53 years of his life. Manesse Bibliothek der Weltliteratur, published in 1960 ![]()
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