The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition by Sartre, Jean-Paul

University of Chicago Press, 1/19/2023 12:00:01 A. paperback. New. 0.7087 in x 8.9764 in x 5.9843 in.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2023. Paperback. New. abridged edition. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.68 inches.

New. 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.

University of Chicago Press, 2023-01-18. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing