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The Family Idiot, v. 5 - Gustave Flaubert, 1821-57 (Hardcover, 2nd)
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The Family Idiot, v. 5 - Gustave Flaubert, 1821-57 (Hardcover, 2nd)
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With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its
translation of a work that is of interest 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.
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. In this fifth and last volume of the English
translation, corresponding to the whole of Volume 3 of the French
edition, Sartre demonstrates how Flaubert's personal "neurosis"
coincided with the demands of his time for an "art neurosis," or a
literature of disengagement and demoralization. While Sartre never
wrote the final volume he envisioned for this vast project, the
existing volumes constitute in themselves a unified work.
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