Le chant de l'origine: La Memoire et le temps dans les 'Confessions' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 1999| | Copyright

Le Chant de l'origine: la memoire et le temps dans les 'Confessions' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. By JEAN-FRANCOIS PERRIN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 339) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. x + 250 pp.

Jean-Francois Perrin's study of the Confessions, undertaken as a doctoral thesis for Paris III University, is clearly the fruit of a long and intense personal engagement with Rousseau's text. Unusually for a French thesis, it is primarily a reading of Rousseau's story rather than a study of its historical or intellectual context. Although Perrin has ...

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