Sartre & Flaubert
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: New
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. New in shrink wrap.
In one of the most ambitious acts of literary criticism of the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre devoted the final decade of his life to a monumental, unfinished biography of Gustave Flaubert — and Hazel E. Barnes stands as its most penetrating interpreter. Sartre & Flaubert unpacks the dense, sprawling intellectual edifice of Sartre's The Family Idiot, mapping the existentialist philosopher's radical attempt to reconstruct a single human life through the twin lenses of Marxism and psychoanalysis, tracing every thread from Flaubert's bourgeois childhood to the creation of Madame Bovary. Barnes, herself the celebrated English translator of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, brings unparalleled authority to this study, illuminating not only the philosophical machinery that drives Sartre's project but also the profound and revealing dialogue it opens between two of France's greatest literary minds. Her analysis dissects Sartre's concept of the universal singular — the idea that one individual can embody the contradictions of an entire historical epoch — with clarity and intellectual rigour. This is an indispensable work for anyone who wishes to understand Sartre's existentialism in its fullest, most humanistic ambition, and it leaves the reader questioning just how well any life, including their own, can ever truly be known.
Author: Hazel E. Barnes
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: New
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. New in shrink wrap.
In one of the most ambitious acts of literary criticism of the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre devoted the final decade of his life to a monumental, unfinished biography of Gustave Flaubert — and Hazel E. Barnes stands as its most penetrating interpreter. Sartre & Flaubert unpacks the dense, sprawling intellectual edifice of Sartre's The Family Idiot, mapping the existentialist philosopher's radical attempt to reconstruct a single human life through the twin lenses of Marxism and psychoanalysis, tracing every thread from Flaubert's bourgeois childhood to the creation of Madame Bovary. Barnes, herself the celebrated English translator of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, brings unparalleled authority to this study, illuminating not only the philosophical machinery that drives Sartre's project but also the profound and revealing dialogue it opens between two of France's greatest literary minds. Her analysis dissects Sartre's concept of the universal singular — the idea that one individual can embody the contradictions of an entire historical epoch — with clarity and intellectual rigour. This is an indispensable work for anyone who wishes to understand Sartre's existentialism in its fullest, most humanistic ambition, and it leaves the reader questioning just how well any life, including their own, can ever truly be known.