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Penguin Books L33 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions

Penguin Classics L33, 1954

Roundel drawing by Elizabeth Friedlander

 

'My suggestion [for the roundel] is a periwinkle flower. (See lovely passage at the opening of the 6th book.) The periwinkle was for Rousseau, I believe, the flower of memory, and memory is the keynote of his book."

 

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