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Author | : Gustave Flaubert |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1976-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140443207 |
Bouvard and Pécuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalities of intellectual life in France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature, and his pleasure in passionate friendship. The result is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce,” wholly grotesque and wholly original, in the spirit of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote or Ulysses.
Author | : GUSTAVE FLAUBERT |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Gustave Flaubert |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 9780674526365 |
Author | : Frederick Brown |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674025370 |
In this riveting landmark biography, Brown illuminates the life and career of the author of "Madame Bovary," shedding light on not only the novelist but also his milieu--the Paris and Normandy of the revolution of 1848 and of the Second Empire.
Author | : Soledad Fox |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2010-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1837642060 |
Tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel "Madame Bovary".
Author | : Douglas Crimp |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262531269 |
"What determines the significance of a work of art? Doe it abide eternally within the work? Or is it continually constructed and reconstructed from the outside, through the work's presentation? The historical shift from autonomous modernist object to postmodernist critique of institutions, from artwork to discursive context, is the subject of Douglas Crimp's essays and Louise Lawler's photographs in On the Museum's Ruins. Taking the museum as paradigmatic institution of artistic modernism, Crimp surveys its historical origins and current transformations. The new paradigm of postmodernism is elaborated through analyses of art practices broadly conceived--not only the practices of artists but also those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums."--back cover.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1452944938 |
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. The associations between madness and language—and madness and silence—preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud’s literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing—particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette—he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness. Following his meditations on history in the recently published Speech Begins after Death, this current volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault’s thought and intellectual development.
Author | : Scarlett Baron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199693781 |
Scarlett Baron explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941). She uncovers the lifelong fascination that Joyce harboured for Flaubert and investigates how this heightened interest inflected his own creative practice.
Author | : Arthur Koestler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2012-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448210011 |
In this novel the call-girls are the men and women of the international jet-set who, at the lift of a telephone, will fly from conference to congress to symposium to discuss subjects of world importance. This time the place is Switzerland and the subject Survival...
Author | : Gustave Flaubert |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1681377160 |
“If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert’s correspondence,” Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert’s letters, “it is that the function of great art is not to provide ‘answers.’” The Letters of Gustave Flaubert is above all a record of the intransigent questions—personal, political, artistic—with which Flaubert struggled throughout his life. Here we have Flaubert’s youthful, sensual outpourings to his mistress, the poet Louise Colet, and, as he advances, still unknown, into his thirties, the wrestle to write Madame Bovary. We hear, too, of his life-changing trip to Egypt, as described to family and friends, and then there are lively exchanges with Baudelaire, with the influential critic Sainte-Beuve, and with Guy de Maupassant, his young protégé. Flaubert’s letters to George Sand reveal her as the great confidante of his later years. Steegmuller’s book, a classic in its own right, is both a splendid life of Flaubert in his own words and the ars poetica of the master who laid the foundations for modern writers from James Joyce to Lydia Davis. Originally issued in two volumes, the book appears here for the first time under a single cover.