The Family Idiot

Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition

von Jean-Paul Sartre

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780226822327
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2023
• Größe: 228 x 149 mm
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Übersetzung: Carol Cosman
• Herausgegeben von: Joseph S. Catalano