The "Confession" is the crowning achievement of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's late work, his most famous and most controversial work.In the novel, which caused widespread discussion in the cultural environment of that time, the writer, who broke with the circle of encyclopedists, explains reasons for this gap and talks about the formation of his philosophical system, analyzing emotional experiences and reflecting on the variability of human consciousness."Confession" is able to captivate any reader not only with polemical fervor, but also with a plot-autobiographical line - the author's story about his legendary affair with Madame de Varence.