The Confessions is Jean Jacques Rousseau's intimate self-portrait, mixing reflection, justification, and vivid memory into a deeply personal narrative. Rousseau examines his friendships, failures, ideals, and injuries with a candor that helped define modern autobiography and made the self a serious literary subject.
This book is for readers who enjoy memoir, philosophy, and the uneasy line between self-knowledge and self-defense. It offers insight into the emotional life of an influential thinker as well as the social pressures he felt around him. The Confessions remains compelling for readers who want a frank, sometimes troubling account of personality, memory, and identity. Its openness makes the book both historically important and personally uncomfortable with unusual psychological urgency today.
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