The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reading

Amazingly up to date and direct/honest. One would not expect this candor from a modern anyone.

language is flowery and more circuitous than expected, a difficult read.

This book is absolutely useless. The print is so small as to be almost illegible. Other than page no.s (larger than the text print), there is no way of orienting oneself within the text. No table of contents, nothing. Nor has any thought been given to layout. New sections begin just below the previous one, marked only by a new headline in bold. Several times, a headline will be at the bottom of a page, and the next section begin overleaf. It’s as if someone just printed out a word document! The book contains no information about the translation or the text, other than a very short introduction (the translator’s? the editor’s?) dated 1896. But other than that, I have no clue as to which translation I have in my hands. And since the text is clearly not formatted as the original, of which it is a reprint, any page-referencing using this volume will be off.
For anyone other than a (very keen-sighted) casual reader, this book is worthless.

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