by Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080701480
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«Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse» is the epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published by Flammarion in paperback (610 pages, in French).
The story follows the love between Julie and her tutor Saint-Preux, marked by social conventions and family obligations. Through the letters, feeling, virtue, friendship and duty are explored, with 18th-century Switzerland as the setting.
The work was first published in 1761. This edition, no. 148 of the GF collection, includes the introduction by Michel Launay.
Intended for readers of French classics and for those who want to read Rousseau's prose in its original language.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
