Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year /
In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated. Yet his year was only going to get worse....
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The terrible year, two writers, and a novel
- From Emma Bovary to the terrible year
- The terrible year
- A tour of the ruins : photography makes history
- A generation on trial : sentimental education
- Hearts and minds
- "A simple heart"
- The historical imagination
- Introduction : the terrible year, two writers, and a novel
- From Emma Bovary to the terrible year
- The terrible year
- A tour of the ruins : photography makes history
- A generation on trial : Sentimental education
- Hearts and minds
- "A simple heart"
- The historical imagination
- Epilogue
- Introduction : the terrible year, two writers, and a novel
- From Emma Bovary to the terrible year
- The terrible year
- A tour of the ruins : photography makes history
- A generation on trial : sentimental education
- Hearts and minds
- "A simple heart"
- The historical imagination
- Epilogue