Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Bro...
Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Bro...
Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Brooks.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
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G 2017/4589
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
xxiii, 241 pages, 16 unnembered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : the terrible year, two writers, and a novel -- From Emma Bovary to the terrible year -- The terrible year -- A tour of the ruins : photography makes history -- A generation on trial : Sentimental education -- Hearts and minds -- "A simple heart" -- The historical imagination -- Epilog...
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New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated. Yet his year was only going to get worse. The summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871 wou...
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Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Brooks.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
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Online version: Brooks, Peter, 1938- author. Flaubert in the ruins of Paris 1 New York : Basic Books, [2017] 9780465096077 (DLC) 2016059619
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G 2017/4589
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74VKVENOa6PX
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ISBN
9780465096022
DDC
843.8
MMS ID
991024132519002626
