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Enlightenment · Autobiography
Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau’s self-examination helped create modern autobiography through radical claims of candor and uniqueness.
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- Date
- 1782 / 1789
- Origin
- Geneva / France
- Genre
- Autobiography
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
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Why it matters
Rousseau’s self-examination helped create modern autobiography through radical claims of candor and uniqueness.
This work is included on the basis of great books / bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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