A Sentimental Education

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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée
Frédéric Moreau, a moderately gifted young provincial, is ambitious in many ways: he dreams of fame, vast wealth, of literary and artistic achievement, of a grand passion. On the Paris paddle-steamer which transports him to his home town of Nogent-sur-Seine at the outset of the novel, he becomes transfixed by the demure Madame Arnoux and, back in Paris, cultivates her ebullient and enterprising husband in order to be near her. Frédéric's devotion fluctuates like his other enthusiasms, and he is caught up in the intense pleasures and the inevitable ennuis of Parisian life.
A Sentimental Education was published in 1869, a quarter of a century after Flaubert first drafted a very different novel with the same title. The final, painstakingly written and meticulously accurate version depicts undistinguished people in the extraordinary context of a crucial period in European... Tovább

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OXFORD
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée
Frédéric Moreau, a moderately gifted young provincial, is ambitious in many ways: he dreams of fame, vast wealth, of literary and artistic achievement, of a grand passion. On the Paris paddle-steamer which transports him to his home town of Nogent-sur-Seine at the outset of the novel, he becomes transfixed by the demure Madame Arnoux and, back in Paris, cultivates her ebullient and enterprising husband in order to be near her. Frédéric's devotion fluctuates like his other enthusiasms, and he is caught up in the intense pleasures and the inevitable ennuis of Parisian life.
A Sentimental Education was published in 1869, a quarter of a century after Flaubert first drafted a very different novel with the same title. The final, painstakingly written and meticulously accurate version depicts undistinguished people in the extraordinary context of a crucial period in European history: the confrontation between militant capitalism and militant labour whicty boiled over in France in the Revolution of 1848.
Flaubert's consummate skill in combining an account of political upheaval with a close and syiripathetically ironic scrutiny of the vagaries of individual motives in social and sexual relationships makes A Sentimental Education one of the very great novels of world literature. Vissza