Vol. 10 No. 2 (2008): Ile, îlot, presque-île
Iuvenilia

Le monument poétique de J.-J. Rousseau : L'Ile de St. Pierre

Paula Marsó
Université Eötvös Loránd

Published 01-12-2008

Keywords

  • J.-J. Rousseau,
  • autobiography,
  • language,
  • testimony,
  • fiction,
  • imagination
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How to Cite

Marsó, P. (2008). Le monument poétique de J.-J. Rousseau : L’Ile de St. Pierre. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 10(2), 377–388. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.10.2008.2.7

Abstract

The unstable genre of Rousseau's Reverie set in motion a movement between biography and narration, testimony and poetic fiction in the wake of Montaigne. In his Reverie, Rousseau builds up a space where he is composed by refraction and displacement. The autobiographical process of writing is a kind of dialectical process between the subject writing about himself and the grammatical person that pertains to language.