Flaubert /
Winock, Michel,
Flaubert / Michel Winock ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. - pages cm
"This book was originally published as Flaubert, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The time and the place -- "Oh! to write" -- To love -- A change of direction -- Death on the horizon -- Louise -- 1848 -- A longing for the Orient -- From the Pyramids to the Sublime Porte -- Louise (last and final) -- Emma -- Fame -- Life in Paris -- Salammbo -- Caroline's marriage -- The hermit in white gloves -- Monseigneur -- Frederic is not me -- Frederic is us -- Cold shower -- George Sand and the old troubadour -- War! -- The Paris Commune -- "The being i loved most" -- The ups and downs of melancholy -- Financial ruin and bereavement -- "Blue sky ahead!" -- "Everything infuriates and weighs upon me" -- Post mortem -- Sketches for a portrait.
Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation--and a source of literary inspiration.--
9780674737952
2016012077
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.
PQ2247 / .W5613
843/.8 B
Flaubert / Michel Winock ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. - pages cm
"This book was originally published as Flaubert, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The time and the place -- "Oh! to write" -- To love -- A change of direction -- Death on the horizon -- Louise -- 1848 -- A longing for the Orient -- From the Pyramids to the Sublime Porte -- Louise (last and final) -- Emma -- Fame -- Life in Paris -- Salammbo -- Caroline's marriage -- The hermit in white gloves -- Monseigneur -- Frederic is not me -- Frederic is us -- Cold shower -- George Sand and the old troubadour -- War! -- The Paris Commune -- "The being i loved most" -- The ups and downs of melancholy -- Financial ruin and bereavement -- "Blue sky ahead!" -- "Everything infuriates and weighs upon me" -- Post mortem -- Sketches for a portrait.
Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation--and a source of literary inspiration.--
9780674737952
2016012077
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.
PQ2247 / .W5613
843/.8 B