Sentimental Education Flaubert GustavePaperback
"I want to write the moral history of the men of my generationor, more accurately, the history of their feelings," declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned "a book about love, about passion; but…
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"I want to write the moral history of the men of my generationor, more accurately, the history of their feelings," declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned "a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadaysthat is to say, inactive." First published in 1869, this novel fulfills Flaubert's conception with a realistic, ironic portrait of bourgeois lives played out against France's tumultuous revolution of 1848 and the founding of its Second Empire.Frederic Moreau, a law student in Paris, dreams of achieving success in art, business, journalism, and politics. His aspirations take a romantic turn upon a chance encounter with a married woman, who inspires a lifelong obsession. Frederic befriends his idol's husband, an influential art dealer, and quickly finds himself seduced by society lifeand bedeviled by financial problems, ideological conflicts, and betrayals of
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