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Rousseau is the most irritating, unsympathetic, conceited, delusional, selfish, portentous, and reptilian writer I've ever come across... but I like Swiss culture, and watchmaking, and the 18th century, and arrogant little Europeans with a penchant for walking long distances — and so, despite it all, I'm smitten. A book written by a human-sized rat in knee breeches.

Extraordinary and harrowing: a deluded narcissist grapples with shadows, attempting every evasive maneuver imaginable to avoid guilt.

Extraordinary and harrowing: a deluded narcissist grapples with shadows and attempts and and every evasive maneuver imaginable to avoid guilt.