About this title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions his older brother Francois only two times in his classic Confessions. In "The Only Son", Stephane Audeguy resurrects Rousseau's forgotten brother in a picaresque tale that brings to life the secret world of eighteenth-century Paris. Instructed at an early age in the philosophy of libertinage by a decadent aristocrat and later apprenticed to a clock maker, Francois is ultimately disowned by his family and flees to Paris' underworld. There he finds work in a brothel that caters to politicians and clergy and begins his personal study of the varieties of sexual ...
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Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 246 p. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2008-09-08
ISBN-13:9780151013296ISBN:0151013292
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"I believe I hve written on more than one occasion recently that some of the novels I've read lately are a bit ambitious and their mere undertaking seems almost too much for the author. In this instance, I must say the opposite.
Mr. Audeguy's subject matter (particularly the last quarter) is such an undertaking that he should have done more. The eighteenth century in France encompassed so many contradictions that it required more treatment. In a sense, this may be the strength of the book. Rather than leaving me bloated, my appetite is still strong.
The novel focuses so much on the jealousy of an older brother and his intentional choice of a different path than his younger, celebrated brother that the political musings and historical commentary seem. almost part and parcel of this jealousy. Still, there is much to be gained in this novel, particularly when we revisit the not-so-"Enlightenment"."
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