Flaubert /Michel Winock ; translated by Nicholas Elliott.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (viii, 549 pages) : illustrations
"This book was originally published as Flaubert, (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The time and the place -- "Oh! to write" -- To love -- A change of direction -- Death on the horizon -- Louise -- 1848 -- A longing for the Orient -- From the Pyramids to Constantinople -- Louise (last and final) -- Emma -- Fame -- Life in Paris -- Salammbo -- Caroline's marriage -- The hermit in white gloves -- Monseigneur -- Frederic is not me -- Frederic is us -- Cold shower -- George Sand and the old troubadour -- War! -- The Paris Commune -- "The being I loved most" -- The ups and downs of melancholy -- Financial ruin and bereavement -- "Blue sky ahead!" -- "Everything infuriates and weighs upon me" -- Post mortem -- Sketches for a portrait -- Chronology -- A complendium of Flaubert quotations -- A critical anthology.
Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation--and a source of literary inspiration.--