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Formerly written as 13 individual books around 397 CE, Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is one of the most referenced works in the European literary traditions. Augustine lived from 354-430 CE, and the task is partly an autobiography. But it addittionally tells us much about the period where he lived. The first nine books draw a engaging narrative of the first 43 years of Augustine's life, that have been spent in North Africa and Italy. Within the 10th booklet, Augustine uses these activities as a yoga on the type of recollection. Finally, he runs more extensively, using the last three books to comment on the Bible's booklet of Genesis. It is a measure of his tremendous intellectual range that he can switch from the personal to the philosophical and finally to the contemplative in this great work. Augustine's subject expresses something of the two times meaning of the task itself. In a very seminal article from 1957, Joseph Ratzinger (eventually Pope Benedict XVI) proved that the subject functions expressing the task both as a "confession" of past sins and as a "confession" of compliment for God. Confessions is an complex work of literature, long recognized because of its poetic prose and penetrating mental insight into the studies and satisfactions to be found in the act of confession. Augustine's work has stood the test of time and continues to be taught and read/listened to all around the world.
