Reveries Of The Solitary Walker
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Reveries of the Solitary Walker, is the last book of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which he never completed. After many years of being banned from society by the greatest people of his time, which some of them were his best friends in the past, Rousseau had come to a state , in which he felt like he got torn from the human world. He was torn from his "brothers", the humans, which weren't humans anymore, from his point of view. He found an asylum in nature. The walks which he talks about in this book, are taking place in the "San-Pier" Island, which he loved more then any-other place, as he says. The book is consisted of 10 different "Walks". in which and every one of them, he confesses about his deepest feelings, and about the pure connection which he created with mother nature(he had a special interest in Botanics). This connection, he felt, was soothing his wounded soul. His walks in the nature are not the primary subject of the book, even though it seems so. You can see a lot of descriptions of his communication with the very natural areas, which dominates in the "San-Pier" Island. But the real walks are the walks into the depths of his soul, and to his very first feelings about the world, which connect between his childhood and his adulthood, and which beats the burden of time (even if it's only for a few moments). Rousseau writes, and also gives the feeling, that the book wasn't made for others but him to read, but of course that isn't the true intention of the writer. His true intention seems to be, to express himself in the most authentic way that's possible, and to give the reader an enter to his deepest world, without forgeting to remind him all of the time that he's an unwanted guest in the deepest, most authentic, being of a Human.
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