Flaubert / Michel Winock ; translated by Nicholas Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winock, Michel, author.

Contributor:

Elliott, Nicholas, translator.

Standardized Title:

Flaubert. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.

Flaubert, Gustave.

Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, French.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 549 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 Constantinople

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

Chronology

A complendium of Flaubert quotations

A critical anthology.

Notes:

"This book was originally published as Flaubert, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674737952

0674737954

OCLC:

945729902