The Confessions of Saint Augustine Saint Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies-hat they are-addressed directly God. Rousseau"s unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant consciousness of other people which haunted him all his life. He felt that all the men and women whom he passed on his way through the world were at watch upon him, and mostly with no very favourable intentions. The exasperation of all those eyes fixed upon him, the absorbing, the protesting self-consciousness which they called forth in him, drove him, in spite of himself, to set about explaining himself to other people, to the world in general. His anxiety to explain, not to justify, hitnself was after all a kind of cowardice before his own conscience. He felt the silent voices within him too acutely to keep silence. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Saint Augustine)