Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“Rousseau's last book, written in the two years before his death: ten 'walks,' in which the old man, convinced that the world has conspired against him, gives up the struggle and talks with his own soul — of an accident on the road to Ménilmontant, of lying, of the Island of Saint-Pierre where he drifted in a boat and was 'sufficient to himself like God,' of plants, of charity, of children, and, in an unfinished last page, of Madame de Warens fifty years before.”