AUDIO BOOK

Emile and Sophie or The Solitaries

(1781)

An unfinished work, Émile et Sophie nevertheless constitutes an entity. This is Emile's experimental novel. Rousseau wants to put his two students to the test of necessity to verify their inner freedom in the face of the hassles of social life or the vagaries of existence. How are they going to assume one an adultery in spite of herself, the other a rupture of which he feels victim? The answers are given to us by Émile through two letters to his tutor, in which he traces the path of his emotions, his wanderings, and explains how his wisdom was exercised to dominate them. *