The Family Idiot - Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition (Hardcover, Abridged)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Editors:	Joseph S. Catalano
Translators:	Carol Cosman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	Abridged
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-82231-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-226-82231-1
Barcode:	9780226822310

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