The family idiot. Volume two : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857 / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Carol Cosman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980, author.

Contributor:

Cosman, Carol, translator.

Series:

The Family Idiot

The Family Idiot ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Novelists, French.

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.

Flaubert, Gustave.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Summary:

Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can we know about a man?" this monumental work continues to perplex its fascinated critics and admirers, who have argued about its precise nature. However, as reviews of the first volume in this translation agreed, whatever The Family Idiot may be called—"a dialectic" (Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review); "biography, philosophy, or politics? Surely . . . all of these together" (Renee Winegarten, Commentary); "a new form of fiction?" (Victor Brombert, Times Literary Supplement); or simply, "mad, of course" (Julian Barnes, London Review of Books)—its prominent place in intellectual history is indisputable. Volume 2, consisting of the first book of part 2 of the original French work, takes the reader through Flaubert's adolescence well into his evolution as an artist. Sartre's approach to his complex subject, whether jaunty or ponderous, psychoanalytical or political, is captured in all of its rich variety of Carol Cosman's translation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Translator's Note

Part Two: Personalization

Book One: "What is Beauty if not the impossible?"

8 The Imaginary Child

9 From Imaginary Child to Actor

10 From Actor to Author

11 Scripta Manent

12 From Poet to Artist

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-82197-8

OCLC:

1290484649