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The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 18211857, An Abridged Edition

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 18211857, An Abridged Edition

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An approachable abridgment of Sartre’s important analysis of Flaubert.
 
From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano.
 
Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre’s overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert’s work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.

Authors: Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano, Carol Cosman

Format: Paperback

Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780226822327

Publication date: 20230329

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