Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Les Confessions - 1920

Charming three-volume set of this edition, which constitutes a founding autobiography in which the author undertakes to tell his life with sincerity, from childhood to maturity, claiming an innovative approach to self-exploration based on the truth of feelings, experiences, and personal contradictions.

In Volumes I, II, and III, Rousseau recalls his childhood in Geneva, marked by the early loss of his mother and his father's influence, as well as his first years of schooling and wandering, which gradually shape his sensitive and independent character.

He then describes his multiple youthful experiences, his journeys, his encounters, and his social difficulties, emphasizing the trials, humiliations, and choices that orient his fate toward a life as a writer and thinker.

The author places a significant emphasis on the analysis of his emotions, his moral aspirations, and his inner conflicts, seeking to show how external circumstances and individual sensibility intertwine in the formation of personality.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions - SD (Circa 1920) - Volume I, II and III - E. Flammarion -
359 + 283 + 414 pages -

Very good condition of the bindings, works in their green half-leather edition, marbled boards, slight signs of wear, raised bands on the spine, gilt titles, volumes and author's name.

Very good internal condition, light browning, small vignette on title page, marbled endpapers in good condition, a handsome set -

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