The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is divided into two parts, each consisting of six books. Rousseau's work is notable as one of the first major autobiographies. "I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the man I shall portray will be myself."