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Sentimental education : the story of a young man / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Helen Constantine ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Description: xxxvii, 433 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780199686636
  • 0199686637
Uniform titles:
  • Éducation sentimentale. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843.8 23
Contents:
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Translator's note -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Gustave Flaubert. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION. Part 1 - Part 2 -- Part 3. Appendix 1: Historical sketch -- Appendix 2: Glossary of historical figures. Explanatory notes.
Summary: Flaubert offers a vivid and unsparing portrait of the young men of his generation, struggling to salvage something of their ideals in a city where corruption, consumerism, and a pervasive sense of disenchantment undermine all but the most compromised erotic, aesthetic, and social initiatives. Sentimental Education combines thoroughgoing irony with an impartial but unexpectedly intense sympathy in a novel whose realism competes with that of Balzac and whose innovations in narrative plot and perspective mark a turning-point in the development of literary modernism. -- Amazon.com
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Translation of: Éducation sentimentale.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Translator's note -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Gustave Flaubert. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION. Part 1 - Part 2 -- Part 3. Appendix 1: Historical sketch -- Appendix 2: Glossary of historical figures. Explanatory notes.

Flaubert offers a vivid and unsparing portrait of the young men of his generation, struggling to salvage something of their ideals in a city where corruption, consumerism, and a pervasive sense of disenchantment undermine all but the most compromised erotic, aesthetic, and social initiatives. Sentimental Education combines thoroughgoing irony with an impartial but unexpectedly intense sympathy in a novel whose realism competes with that of Balzac and whose innovations in narrative plot and perspective mark a turning-point in the development of literary modernism. -- Amazon.com

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