Gustave Flaubert
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| Title | : | Sentimental Education |
| Author | : | Gustave Flaubert |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 460 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 2004 by Penguin Classics (first published April 15th 1869) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century |
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Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.Details Books Concering Sentimental Education
| Original Title: | L'Éducation sentimentale |
| ISBN: | 0140447970 (ISBN13: 9780140447972) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaubert |
| Characters: | Frédéric Moreau, Mme Arnoux, Marthe Arnoux, Charles Deslauriers, Mme Dambreuse |
| Setting: | France |
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Pretty much the best thing ever. Not really Maybe. Yeah, it's 500 pages long and about a guy who wastes his life and is incredibly selfish and everyone else he knows is even worse ). And yeah, not much happens, especially in the first 200 pages or so. YET the book manages to be fucking intoxicating. The writing is precise, trenchant, etc, as expected, and perhaps because of this it is insanely simple to just get immersed in this world of 1840s Paris. (I know this is selling it on a pretty baseThis one is often described as the novel to end all novels and I understand why when you are reading it you say to yourself very frequently if this is what novels are like I am never going to read another one in my entire life. From about page 50 until when I stopped, I was having these strong bibliocidal fantasies. I thought maybe I will leave this accidentally on the bus to work. But I forgot to forget it, like that country song. Then I thought maybe a column of army ants will chomp it up
The Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert (1821 1880)We are in Paris, from 1840 to 1868.During Flaubert's lifetime and therefore particularly realistic. This novel of ambitious and extensive proportions follows a young mans education of life. He learns about illusions of lasting true love, rare reliable friendship, the vain value of wealth and fortune, the cruelty and horror of revolution and civil war.The author, of personal experience, develops the extremely complex and agitated political
*this book deserves anywhere between 4.2 and 4.7 starsFunny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least. (Bob Dylan)With every work I read or reread by Flaubert, I am all the more convinced that he was the master craftsman, that he was master of attention to the tiny stuff, the small details that are layered brick by brick (word by word), the master of attention to even the mortar between the bricks, and master of raising the whole damn
Look, its Flaubert. I don't have any fault to find with this writing. But I've still got 100 pages to go and its been weeks and I have no intention of finishing this. I get these characters- way waaay too much. I want to claw my eyes out rather than spend any more time with them though.So probably too good a job, M. Flaubert. But I'd prefer to spend time with Emma so many times over. Even at her most whiny.Review to come.
The real interest of this classic is in its writing, sought after, stylized, beautiful. It is true that in the face of such prose the story of a long list of mediocre characters, misguided petty bourgeois or decadent aristocrats is of little importance. Moreover, she remains largely in the embryonic state, not avoiding the lengths caused by the endless procrastination of the hero, madly in love with a married and faithful woman. This novel is considered to be an autobiography of Flaubert, it is
Oh, I who adore Flaubert! how is it that I havent liked The Sentimental Education? We wish so much we loved everything that comes from the ones we love, do we?The Sentimental Education is the journey of a young man Frederic, the man of all weaknesses and other men, who dreams of great love and life, but who deliberately spoils himself in sordid loves. Indeed, the woman he loves is married and their love is impossible. Without living like a monk, the young man, whom Flaubert describes as
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