Bibliograph

Sentimental education, the story of a young man, Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Helen Constantine ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

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Sentimental education, the story of a young man, Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Helen Constantine ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Sentimental education

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944317838

Responsibility statement

Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Helen Constantine ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Sub title

the story of a young man

Summary

Flaubert offers a vivid and unsparing portrait of the young men of his generation, struggling to salvage something of their ideals in a city where corruption, consumerism, and a pervasive sense of disenchantment undermine all but the most compromised erotic, aesthetic, and social initiatives. Sentimental Education combines thoroughgoing irony with an impartial but unexpectedly intense sympathy in a novel whose realism competes with that of Balzac and whose innovations in narrative plot and perspective mark a turning-point in the development of literary modernism. -- Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Translator's note -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Gustave Flaubert. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION. Part 1 - Part 2 -- Part 3. Appendix 1: Historical sketch -- Appendix 2: Glossary of historical figures. Explanatory notes

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