The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857. Carol Cosman, Jean-Paul Sartre

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857



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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Language: English
Page: 366
ISBN: 0226735184, 9780226735184

From Publishers Weekly

Gustave Flaubert's boyhood desire to become an actor was "his way of living the situation assigned to him in the Flaubert family," writes Sartre. This monumental life study draws on psychoanalysis and existentialism in imagining how Flaubert forged his inner self. Sartre portrays the author of Madame Bovary as a Nero of words whose towering literary ambition was the revenge of a child seething with rage at his manly, overpossessive mother. Though this volume covers Flaubert's early literary career, the emphasis is on childhood and adolescence. His fetishes, homoerotic affairs, self-proclaimed desire to be a woman and masochism add up to a seldom-seen side of the polished literary stylist. Readers not put off by the dense academic prose and highly speculative approach will find much to ponder.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an alternate

edition.

From Library Journal

The assumption in this "biocritical" study is that we are familiar with Flaubert's biography. This fourth of a projected five-volume English translation (Vol. 1, LJ 9/1/81; Vol. 2, LJ 3/15/87; Vol. 3, Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1989) is a treatise on (ostensibly) the years 1821-1857. Yet we find Sartre concentrating meticulously on almost every nuance of Flaubert's words in his letters regarding his seizures in 1884 and his ensuing neurosis. Flaubert's temporary loss of interest in writing is rationalized by Sartre as a "loser wins" tactic: in L'Education Sentimentale , the hero, Jules, achieves genius through absolute failure, not by accident but intentionally. The Family Idiot is a particularly digressive, personal interpretation of important years in Flaubert's life. The French version, with its lengthy and ponderous sentences, is not easy to digest; Cosman's translation is a mirror that reflects remarkably well Sartre's style and manner.
- Danielle Mihram, Univ. of Southern California Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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