Confessions, volumes 3 and 4


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(4.5 étoiles; 42 critiques)

“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)

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01 - Vol. 3: "Leaving the service of Mme de V..." 17:45 Lu par Martin Geeson
02 - "Mlle de Breil was about my own age..." 17:24 Lu par Martin Geeson
03 - "There were at Turin several new converts..." 16:49 Lu par Martin Geeson
04 - "How did my heart beat..." 18:48 Lu par Martin Geeson
05 - "I never recollect to have enjoyed the future..." 14:15 Lu par Martin Geeson
06 - "This life was too delightful..." 18:44 Lu par Martin Geeson
07 - "What a change! but I was obliged..." 15:42 Lu par Martin Geeson
08 - "I was destined to be the outcast..." 19:41 Lu par Martin Geeson
09 - "The Chapter of Geneva..." 18:19 Lu par Martin Geeson
10 - Vol. 4: "Let anyone judge my surprise..." 18:31 Lu par Martin Geeson
11 - "Arrived at Toune, and myself well dried..." 17:12 Lu par Martin Geeson
12 - "One morning, when he expected to give audience..." 18:54 Lu par Martin Geeson
13 - "I did not return to Nion..." 17:18 Lu par Martin Geeson
14 - "It is a long time since I mentioned..." 16:24 Lu par Martin Geeson
15 - "We began our expedition unsuccessfully..." 18:19 Lu par Martin Geeson
16 - "How much did Paris disappoint..." 18:57 Lu par Martin Geeson
17 - "One day, among others..." 19:13 Lu par Martin Geeson
18 - "I remained at Lyon seven or eight days..." 20:48 Lu par Martin Geeson

Critiques

Excellent!


(5 étoiles)

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!


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Excellent job by Mr. Gleeson. He is perhaps my favorite narrator on Librivox.

A superb reading


(5 étoiles)

of an interesting autobiography.

I can't look away...


(4.5 étoiles)

There is something very really about this that draws one in....