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- 英語
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- 完全な作品
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- 著者自身による
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この作品を引用
- APAジャン＝ジャック・ルソー. (n.d.). The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete [告白]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-confessions-of-jean-jacques-rousseau-complete
- MLAジャン＝ジャック・ルソー. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete [告白]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-confessions-of-jean-jacques-rousseau-complete.
- Chicagoジャン＝ジャック・ルソー. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete [告白]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-confessions-of-jean-jacques-rousseau-complete.
収録版の書誌情報です。SigPhi はデジタル複製です。判明している刊行年・出版社・翻訳者を記載し、年が不明の場合は「n.d.」と示します。
何についての本か
すべてを語る——自分を醜く見せることも含めて——という約束のもとに書かれたルソーの自伝。
背景と歴史
一七六五年から一七七〇年にかけて執筆され、刊行は没後のことである。書かれるにははっきりした事情があった。ヴォルテールが小冊子を流布させ、『エミール』の著者ルソーが自分の五人の子を捨て子養育院に預けたことを暴いていたのだ。それは事実であり、『告白』はそれを認めている。自分の生涯を書くという近代的な作法を発明した書物だが、彼が何に対して身を守っていたのかを知って読むほうがよい。約束された率直さは、同時に一つの戦略でもあるのだから。
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strangely constituted being, and some have pronounced upon him very severe sentences. Let it be said once for all that his faults and mistakes were generally due to causes over which he had but little control, such as a defective education, a too acute sensitiveness, which engendered suspicion of his fellows, irresolution, an overstrained sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten that he was afflicted during the greater part of his life with an incurable disease. Lord Byron had a soul near akin to Rousseau's, whose writings naturally made a deep impression on the poet's mind, and probably had an influence on his conduct and modes of thought: In some stanzas of 'Childe Harold' this sympathy is expressed with truth and power; especially is the weakness of the Swiss philosopher's character summed up in the following admirable lines: "Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they passed The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast. "His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose, For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind. But he was frenzied,--wherefore, who may know? Since cause might be which skill could never find; But he was frenzied by disease or woe To that worst pitch of all, which wears a reasoning show.…