The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau Author:Anonymous Edited, revised & with a preface by Lester G. Crocker. "...here is a man, uncovered in the nakedness of body and soul. It is a stirring tale he unfolds: a picaresque story of incredible adventures and mad loves, an imbroglio of plots and intrigues. We are vagabonds with this man, and lovers; we grow up with him, suffer with him the spasms of ... more »pleasure and pain, of weakness and triumpth. And behind the actor who fills the foreground, we see the stage he treads, an unrolling panorama of the 18th century world, the cottages of the humble, the cafe's and salons of the literati, the empty lives and pale gestures of the aristocracy, withered leaves on a dying branch. But all these-adventures, plots, people-are overtowered by the figure who reacts so drastically to them, by the character they serve to illuminate in a raw, unfiltered light. -From the Preface« less