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From: Artforum
Date: 20050201
Author:Morris, Daniel

PLAIN JEAN Daniel Morris on EIi Friedlander JJ. ROUSSEAU: AN AFTERLIFE OF WORDS BY ELI FRIEDLANDER CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 160 PAGES. $40.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was no stranger to autobiography. His third attempt at self-writing, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, though cut short by his death, presents a compelling picture of the ordinariness of life in general and Rousseau's life in particular. Such is the position Eli Friedlander defends in J.J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words. "Rousseau turns to the simple, and his writing remains plain," he emphasizes early on in the book, ...

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