The reader in "The confessions" by J.-J. Rousseau: The rhetorical tenets of the autobiographic novel
The article deals with the relationships between the author and the reader in «The confessions» by J.-J. Rousseau. It is argued that Rousseau uses the traditional rhetorical categories of «ethos» and «pathos» in order to endue the reader the possession of «common sense» and then discredits it. Beeing connected from the very beginning with the poetics of picaresque novel «The confessions» gradually transforms to the tractate on education.