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    Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
    Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
    Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
    Audiobook6 hours

    Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

    Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    "She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..."

    More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his "maman" and perennial comforter -

    "Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse..."

    (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
    Author

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau was a writer, composer, and philosopher that is widely recognized for his contributions to political philosophy. His most known writings are Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract.

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