Sentimental Education
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Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 31, 2018
Flaubert’s Sentimental Education is one of the great novels of Paris, its story of a young man’s love for an older woman unfolding against the backdrop of the revolution of 1848, which ended with the abdication of King Louis-Philippe and the establishment of the Second Republic. Flaubert’s biting view of bourgeois enervation, polished by painstaking research and observation, is a lens of such power that it transforms a history of a historical epoch into an anatomy of social and psychological truths. Never has irony proved so nuanced, or so revelatory.
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Miceal O Coileain
Dec 4, 2018
What a great, wonder of a book! So rich in detail and teeming with imagination. I'll never forget this book and how I felt when I read it, over 40 years ago.
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Anthony Keyes
Apr 26, 2019
exquisitely melancholy
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