{"product_id":"the-family-idiot-gustave-flaubert-1821-1857-an-abridged-edition-jean-paul-sartre","title":"The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition\n Jean-Paul Sartre","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"1cmd01-b1to8w-eqoo3g-9cwcqu\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWith this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat Sartre's study of Flaubert, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Family Idiot,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel or biography or \"criticism-fiction\" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. In the preface, Sartre writes: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the sequel to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSearch for a Method.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSartre discusses Flaubert's personal development, his relationship to his family, his decision to become a writer, and the psychosomatic crisis or \"conversion\" from his father's domination to the freedom of his art. Sartre blends psychoanalysis with a sociological study of the ideology of the period, the crisis in literature, and Flaubert's influence on the future of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Sartre never wrote the final volume he envisioned for this vast project, the existing volumes constitute in themselves a unified work—one that John Sturrock, writing in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e called \"a shatteringly fertile, digressive and ruthless interpretation of these few cardinal years in Flaubert's life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A virtuoso perfomance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre's mythology. . . . The translator, Carol Cosman, has acquitted herself brilliantly.\"—Frederick Brown, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid translation by Carol Cosman. . . . Sartre called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a 'true novel,' and it does tell a story and eventually reach a shattering climax. The work can be described most simply as a dialectic, which shifts between two seemingly alternative interpretations of Flaubert's destiny: a psychoanalytic one, centered on his family and on his childhood, and a Marxist one, whose guiding themes are the status of the artist in Flaubert's period and the historical and ideological contradictions faced by his social class, the bourgeoisie.\"—Fredric Jameson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Paul Sartre (1906-1980) was offered, but declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy include the monumental study of Flaubert, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Freud Scenario\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, both published in translation by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca:text textemphasis=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/a:text\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55722355556643,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55722355589411,"sku":null,"price":730.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55722355622179,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_37470d76-b618-4e21-8e87-33d24fe35b99.webp?v=1791483624","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/the-family-idiot-gustave-flaubert-1821-1857-an-abridged-edition-jean-paul-sartre","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}