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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris
The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
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By Peter Brooks
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From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his recently published novel, Sentimental Education, was prophetic of the upheavals in France during this “terrible year,” and how Flaubert’s life and that of his compatriots were changed forever.
Brooks uses letters between Flaubert and his novelist friend and confidante George Sand to tell the story of Flaubert and his work, exploring his political commitments and his understanding of war, occupation, insurrection, and bloody political repression. Interweaving history, art history, and literary criticism-from Flaubert’s magnificent novel of historical despair, to the building of the reactionary monument the Sacréoeur on Paris’s highest summit, to the emergence of photography as historical witness-Brooks sheds new light on the pivotal moment when France redefined herself for the modern world.
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- Apr 4, 2017
- Page Count
- 288 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465096077
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