Les Confessions

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Les Confessions is an autobiographical work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, widely regarded as one of the first modern autobiographies and a landmark in introspective literature.

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Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) 3
Les Confessions canonical 2

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instanceOf autobiographical work
author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublicationDate 1782
genre autobiography
introspective literature
hasPart Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book IX
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
influenced Romantic literature
confessional writing
modern autobiography
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Enlightenment
narrativePerson first person
notableFor being one of the first modern autobiographies
candor about personal faults
detailed psychological analysis of the self
originalLanguage French
placeOfWriting France
Switzerland
publicationStatus posthumous
secondPartPublicationDate 1789
setting Geneva
Paris
various European cities
structure 12 books
subjectMatter life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
personal experiences
psychological introspection
theme guilt and remorse
individualism
memory and identity
self-examination
social criticism
truthfulness
timePeriodCovered 1712–1765
titleLanguage French
titleTranslation The Confessions

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