Flaubert
By: Michel Winock ; translated by Nicholas Elliott
Contributors: Elliott, Nicholas, translator
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9780674737952
Subjects: French Novelists; Biography
Work titles: Flaubert
Description: Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation--and a source of literary inspiration.--
Notes: Translation of Flaubert by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French title.
Table of contents: title: The time and the place; title: "Oh! to write"; title: To love; title: A change of direction; title: Death on the horizon; title: Louise; title: 1848; title: A longing for the Orient; title: From the Pyramids to Constantinople; title: Louise (last and final); title: Emma; title: Fame; title: Life in Paris; title: Salammbo; title: Caroline's marriage; title: The hermit in white gloves; title: Monseigneur; title: Frederic is not me; title: Frederic is us; title: Cold shower; title: George Sand and the old troubadour; title: War!; title: The Paris Commune; title: "The being I loved most"; title: The ups and downs of melancholy; title: Financial ruin and bereavement; title: "Blue sky ahead!"; title: "Everything infuriates and weighs upon me"; title: Post mortem; title: Sketches for a portrait; title: Chronology; title: A complendium of Flaubert quotations; title: A critical anthology.