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The family idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857 / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Carol Cosman.
Van Pelt Library PQ2247 .S313 v.1-2 v.3-5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Standardized Title:
- Idiot de la famille. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
- Flaubert, Gustave.
- Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.
- Novelists, French.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981-1995.
- Summary:
- Jean-Paul Satre discusses Flaubert's personal development, his relationship with each member of his family, his decision to become a writer, and the psychosomatic crisis or 'conversion' that liberated him from his father's domination and enabled him to devote himself to his art. Sartre's psychoanalytic approach merges with a sociological study of the ideology of the period, the crisis in literature, and Flaubert's role as one both influenced by all this and himself influencing the future of literature. Translated by Carol Cosman.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'Idiot de la famille.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0226735095
- OCLC:
- 7273726
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