Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Family Idiot 5: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857

The Family Idiot 5: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857

Jean-Paul Sartre Carol Cosman
4/5 (6 ratings)
Read Download
With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.

That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel or biography or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. In the preface, Sartre writes: "The Family Idiot is the sequel to Search for a Method. The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case."

Sartre discusses Flaubert's personal development, his relationship to his family, his decision to become a writer, and the psychosomatic crisis or "conversion" from his father's domination to the freedom of his art. Sartre blends psychoanalysis with a sociological study of the ideology of the period, the crisis in literature, and Flaubert's influence on the future of literature.

While Sartre never wrote the final volume he envisioned for this vast project, the existing volumes constitute in themselves a unified work—one that John Sturrock, writing in the Observer, called "a shatteringly fertile, digressive and ruthless interpretation of these few cardinal years in Flaubert's life."

"A virtuoso perfomance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, The Family Idiot is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre's mythology. . . . The translator, Carol Cosman, has acquitted herself brilliantly."—Frederick Brown, New York Review of Books

"A splendid translation by Carol Cosman. . . . Sartre called The Family Idiot a 'true novel,' and it does tell a story and eventually reach a shattering climax. The work can be described most simply as a dialectic, which shifts between two seemingly alternative interpretations of Flaubert's destiny: a psychoanalytic one, centered on his family and on his childhood, and a Marxist one, whose guiding themes are the status of the artist in Flaubert's period and the historical and ideological contradictions faced by his social class, the bourgeoisie."—Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review

Jean-Paul Sartre was offered, but declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy include the monumental study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, and The Freud Scenario, both published in translation by the University of Chicago Press.
Language
English
Pages
632
Format
cloth
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
January 26, 1994
ISBN
0226735192
ISBN 13
9780226735191

The Family Idiot 5: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857

Jean-Paul Sartre Carol Cosman
4/5 (6 ratings)
Read Download
With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.

That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel or biography or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. In the preface, Sartre writes: "The Family Idiot is the sequel to Search for a Method. The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case."

Sartre discusses Flaubert's personal development, his relationship to his family, his decision to become a writer, and the psychosomatic crisis or "conversion" from his father's domination to the freedom of his art. Sartre blends psychoanalysis with a sociological study of the ideology of the period, the crisis in literature, and Flaubert's influence on the future of literature.

While Sartre never wrote the final volume he envisioned for this vast project, the existing volumes constitute in themselves a unified work—one that John Sturrock, writing in the Observer, called "a shatteringly fertile, digressive and ruthless interpretation of these few cardinal years in Flaubert's life."

"A virtuoso perfomance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, The Family Idiot is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre's mythology. . . . The translator, Carol Cosman, has acquitted herself brilliantly."—Frederick Brown, New York Review of Books

"A splendid translation by Carol Cosman. . . . Sartre called The Family Idiot a 'true novel,' and it does tell a story and eventually reach a shattering climax. The work can be described most simply as a dialectic, which shifts between two seemingly alternative interpretations of Flaubert's destiny: a psychoanalytic one, centered on his family and on his childhood, and a Marxist one, whose guiding themes are the status of the artist in Flaubert's period and the historical and ideological contradictions faced by his social class, the bourgeoisie."—Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review

Jean-Paul Sartre was offered, but declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy include the monumental study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, and The Freud Scenario, both published in translation by the University of Chicago Press.
Language
English
Pages
632
Format
cloth
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
January 26, 1994
ISBN
0226735192
ISBN 13
9780226735191

More books from Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (99,466 ratings)

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

4.1/5 (32,555 ratings)

Existentialism is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (29,682 ratings)

No Exit and Three Other Plays

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (28,565 ratings)

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (28,495 ratings)

The Wall

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (22,551 ratings)

The Age of Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (13,367 ratings)

Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (11,096 ratings)

The Words

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.7/5 (7,720 ratings)

Les Mains sales

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (4,817 ratings)

Les jeux sont faits

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (4,472 ratings)

Existentialism and Human Emotions

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (4,544 ratings)

The Reprieve

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (2,491 ratings)

The Flies / Les Mouches

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (2,502 ratings)

Iron in the Soul

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (2,230 ratings)

Le diable et le bon dieu

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (1,828 ratings)

المومس الفاضلة

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.4/5 (1,899 ratings)

What is Literature?

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.6/5 (1,284 ratings)

Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (1,034 ratings)

Essays in Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (968 ratings)

The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (914 ratings)

گوشه نشینان آلتونا

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (888 ratings)

Intimacy

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (847 ratings)

La Putain respectueuse, suivi de Morts sans sépulture

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.6/5 (749 ratings)

The Emotions: Outline of a Theory (Philosophical Library Book)

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.4/5 (740 ratings)

A puerta cerrada - La puta respetuosa

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (619 ratings)

L'enfance d'un chef

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.5/5 (673 ratings)

چرخدنده

Jean-Paul Sartre

4/5 (515 ratings)

Baudelaire

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.8/5 (474 ratings)

Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.9/5 (425 ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader