Confessiones
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo Aurelius Augustinus · 354–430
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Thirteen books addressed to God, in which a bishop in North Africa looks back on his childhood, his ambitions, his mother Monica and his conversion in a Milan garden, then turns to memory, time and creation. It is the first great inward autobiography in the West, and its questions about time and the restless heart are still taken up by philosophers and poets.