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The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, an Abridged Edition

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, an Abridged Edition

Sartre, Jean-Paul
Catalano, Joseph S.
Cosman, Carol

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226822311
ISBN13: 9780226822310
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 19 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert.

From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano.

Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre's overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert's work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.

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