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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

Hardback

Main Details

Title Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Brooks
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 159
Category/GenreLiterary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780465096022
ClassificationsDewey:843.8
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Basic Books
Imprint Basic Books
Publication Date 4 April 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated.

Author Biography

Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University. The author of several award-winning books, Brooks currently teaches at Princeton University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Reviews

David Shields "Deploying his characteristic precision, eloquence, nuance, and wit, Peter Brooks has produced not only a brilliant book about the relationship between history and culture but an oddly prescient and timely map for how contemporary writers might respond--with a useful and intelligently political art--following America's own 'terrible year.'" Victor Brombert, Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University and author of Trains of Thought "Challenging and judicious, wide-ranging yet consistently focused, Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris is a delight to read. In full control of literary and political history, Peter Brooks makes an unimpeachable case for the importance of Flaubert's Sentimental Education as a prophetic historical novel, and in the process corrects and redeems the conventional image of Flaubert as a political reactionary and aloof resident in an ivory tower." Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University "From one of our finest literary critics, Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris reminds us of the power of great novels in dark times. This story about the entangled relationships of friends, fiction, history, and politics couldn't be more timely, and nobody tells it better than Peter Brooks."