Confessions, volumes 3 and 4
Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(4,484 Sterne; 32 Bewertungen)
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”
Here again is the youthful, hero-worshiping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into picaresque escapades in the company of transients and misfits, always ending in reunion with mother-surrogate Madame de Warens.
In a literally unprecedented gesture of self-revelation, Rousseau opens Volume 3 exposing himself indecently in dark alleyways. This 1903 edition fails to appreciate the humorous strangeness of the passage and removes it to protect the reader.
(Summary by Martin Geeson) (5 hr 23 min)
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Excellent!
thatartgirl
(5 Sterne)
Excellent reading! And interesting second installment in Rousseau's confessions. Helps to understand the development of the character of his younger self. Looking forward to the next part!
Matthew Brady
(5 Sterne)
Excellent job by Mr. Gleeson. He is perhaps my favorite narrator on Librivox.
I can't look away...
adam
(4,5 Sterne)
There is something very really about this that draws one in....