
The Family Idiot
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.
- Undertitel
- Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition
- Författare
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Översättare
- Carol Cosman
- Redaktör
- Joseph S. Catalano
- Upplaga
- Abridged
- ISBN
- 9780226822310
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 513 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2023-01-19
- Sidor
- 304