The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780060909093 (0060909099)
Publish date: March 28th 1982
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
18th Century
La jeunesse est le temps d'étudier la sagesse; la vieillesse est le temps de la pratiquer.L'expérience instruit toujours, je l'avoue; mais elle ne profite que pour l'espace qu'on a devant soi. Est-il temps au moment qu'il faut mourir d'apprendre comment on aurait dû vivre?
Sad ending to a life obsessed too much with what others thought of him, or perhaps his own obsession with fame and being loved. Hard to say. I wish he would have walked quietly off into the sunset for five years and then died. It would have said more than this work did.
And I thought my diaries were maudlin and full of self-pity. This book is Rousseau lite, offering a quick summary of some of his major ideas about truth and man's relationships to nature and society all the while ruminating on life in (largely self-imposed) exile. At times, he was so over the top th...
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