Flaubert / Michel Winock.
Winock, Michel, author.
2017
PQ2247 .W5613eb
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Title Flaubert / Michel Winock.
Author Winock, Michel, author.
Edition Translated by Nicholas Elliott
ISBN 9780674974470
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974470
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (528 p.) : 32 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674974470 doi
Call Number PQ2247 .W5613eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 843/.8
Summary Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar, ignorant, obsessed with material comforts, impervious to beauty, the French middle class embodied for Flaubert every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation-and a source of literary inspiration. Flaubert depicts a man whose personality, habits, and thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably bound to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic escapes from his "hole" in Croisset to pursue a variety of pleasures: fervent friendships, society soirées, and a whirlwind of literary and romantic encounters. He prided himself on the impersonality of his writing, but he did not hesitate to use material from his own life in his fiction. Nowhere are Flaubert's contradictions more evident than in his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the timelessness and sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not transcend the era he abominated. Rejecting the modern world, he paradoxically became its celebrated chronicler and the most modern writer of his time.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. The Time and the Place
2. "Oh! To Write"
3. To Love
4. A Change of Direction
5. Death on the Horizon
6. Louise
7. 1848
8. A Longing for the Orient
9. From the Pyramids to Constantinople
10. Louise (Last and Final)
11. Emma
12. Fame
13. Life in Paris
14. Salammbô
15. Caroline's Marriage
16. The Hermit in White Gloves
17. Monseigneur
18. Frédéric Is Not Me
19. Frédéric Is Us
20. Cold Shower
21. George Sand and the Old Troubadour
22. War!
23. The Paris Commune
24. "The Being I Loved Most"
25. The Ups and Downs of Melancholy
26. Financial Ruin and Bereavement
27. "Blue Sky Ahead!"
28. "Every thing Infuriates and Weighs upon Me"
29. Post Mortem
30. Sketches for a Portrait
Chronology
A Compendium of Flaubert Quotations
A Critical Anthology
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

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