Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 10, 1988 (Review of William Boyd's novel "The New Confession." Book critic John Leonard compares this with Rousseau's Confessions.)
Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 7, 2016 (The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765, it was completed in 1769, but not published until 1782, four years after Rousseau's death) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)