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Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

by Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712 - 1778)

15 - "The writings of Port-Royal..."

"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..."More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his "maman" and perennial comforter -"Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse..."(Introduction by Martin Geeson)

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Listen next episodes of Confessions, volumes 5 and 6:
16 - "My health was not yet re-established..." , 17 - "We arrived at Valence to dinner..." , 18 - "I was so much better..." , 19 - "My impatience to arrive at Chambery..." , 20 - "Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone..."