The Return of the Family Idiot
Author | : Robert Lannon |
Publisher | : Alton, Ont. : R. Lannon |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780968448014 |
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Author | : Robert Lannon |
Publisher | : Alton, Ont. : R. Lannon |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780968448014 |
Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226821994 |
Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can we know about a man?" this monumental work continues to perplex its fascinated critics and admirers, who have argued about its precise nature. However, as reviews of the first volume in this translation agreed, whatever The Family Idiot may be called—"a dialectic" (Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review); "biography, philosophy, or politics? Surely . . . all of these together" (Renee Winegarten, Commentary); "a new form of fiction?" (Victor Brombert, Times Literary Supplement); or simply, "mad, of course" (Julian Barnes, London Review of Books)—its prominent place in intellectual history is indisputable. Volume 4 consists of part three, books one and two, of the original French work. This volume, the fourth in a projected five-volume English-language edition, includes Sartre's discussion of the onset of Flaubert's illness, or neurosis, in 1844, and a significant reading of his L'Education sentimentale. Sartre's approach to his complex subject, whether jaunty or judicious, psychoanalytic or political, is captured in all of its rich variety in Carol Cosman's translation.
Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2021-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022682196X |
That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. Sartre writes, simply, in the preface to the book: "The Family Idiot is the sequel to The Question of Method. The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case." "A man is never an individual," Sartre writes, "it would be more fitting to call him a universal singular. Summed up and for this reason universalized by his epoch, he in turn resumes it by reproducing himself in it as singularity. Universal by the singular universality of human history, singular by the universalizing singularity of his projects, he requires simultaneous examination from both ends." This is the method by which Sartre examines Flaubert and the society in which he existed. Now this masterpiece is being made available in an inspired English translation that captures all the variations of Sartre's style—from the jaunty to the ponderous—and all the nuances of even the most difficult ideas. Volume 1 consists of Part One of the original French work, La Constitution, and is primarily concerned with Flaubert's childhood and adolescence.
Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2023-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226822303 |
An approachable abridgment of Sartre’s important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano. Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre’s overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert’s work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.
Author | : Rose Macaulay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Kaldheim |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1786897377 |
In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flop-houses, pan-handling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of living hand-to-mouth forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison, to relationships lost and lamented. Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate collection of characters instils in him a new empathy and wisdom, as he journeys on a road less travelled.
Author | : Joseph S. Catalano |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521152275 |
Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings.
Author | : Lauren A. Gray, M.S; L.M.F.T. |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1101145072 |
"As long as you're living under my roof"-made simple... Census figures say about half those aged 18 to 24 live at home, with 65% of college graduates returning. This guide helps parents and their adult children deal with living together again by: helping young adults set goals for independence; determine boundaries; talk about dating, and more. -- Only book on the topic -- Open nesting trend alive and well-especially with the advent of the economic downturn -- Focused on the interests and concerns of both the parents and the adult children
Author | : Elif Batuman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 014311106X |
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Author | : Richard Buskin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780028623467 |
This is a unique reference book about the ancient and modern British Royal Family and all the extrarordinary trappings and quaint customs that surround it.