About this title: This novel of love and growing disillusionment is about the romantic attachment of a young man for an older woman; its subtext is an examination of the consequences of moral compromise and indifference.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780140441413ISBN:0140441417
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1964-11-30
ISBN-13:9780140441413ISBN:0140441417
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1964-11-30
ISBN-13:9780140441413ISBN:0140441417
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1964-11-30
ISBN-13:9780140441413ISBN:0140441417
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140441413ISBN:0140441417
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"Long time friends will know I have a great love of the English novel of the nineteenth century, but, heavens, it's a ponderous beast when compared to this work by Flaubert.
Written in 1869 this feels a far more modern novel , with a rapid pace which covers events in two chapters that it takes most contemporaneous novels a volume to deal with. Indeed it would be hard to imagine such a swift style ever use in 1800s Britain, if anything it feels more appropriate to a novel about 1960's Carnaby Street. The morality too is much different to straight-laced Victoriana, with the lead character spending most of the book in love with a married woman and even scheming on how best to get her into bed. This is before he actually moves in with the woman of easy virtue.
Frederic Moreau is the young antihero: a lazy, feckless, amoral and envious sort, who we follow through this tumultuous period of French history. (Flaubert is superb at weaving his characters into real events, although if - like me - you don't have expert knowledge of this era then an edition with good notes is essential). Thinking of the 1960s may actually be a good window for the modern reader to start reading this book, there is the social mobility, the tumultuous times, the ambitious young men and the sex (if not the drugs and rock'n'roll). Covering a number of years Flaubert follows his character as he succeeds and then fails many times over until the reader, whilst still probably not liking him, does understand him and the world he lives in."
"Entre Mme Arnoux qui passe dans la vie les yeux baissés, fidèle à son honneur, et Rosa nette, la fille de joie, Frédéric hésite.
Flaubert dissèque une société qui s'enivre de vertu tout en se goinfrant de plaisirs faciles. Nous sommes à la veille de la Révolution de 48.
Jamais l'on na plus débattu de la démocratie, de la République et de la propriété. Ses amis s'engagent, militent, Frédéric, lui, pense à sa carrière et calcule.
La bêtise règne sur les salons bourgeois, dans les réunions politiques, les salles de rédaction et les ateliers.
L'Education sentimentale est le roman de la parole qui ne mène qu'au rêve en amour, en politique comme au travail.
De ce chef-d'oeuvre noir où Flaubert a mis tant de lui-même, tout le roman contemporain est sorti."
"This is a book about failure, plain and simple. And maybe this is what our lives end up being when it is all said and done, but I can't help but find my taste in fiction not that of realism genre. So why was this book just "okay" for me, well it has to do with the characters, all of which serve little to no purpose whatsoever, and none of them possess much in the aspect of redeeming value. This is probably what Flaubert and realism where all about, but the funny thing about this is how detached and unmoved I felt from Fredric as he gallivanted around acting like a pathetic child after a woman that from the start never shows any interest in him. From a realistic point of view, I found all of the characters deplorable and dull. I actually found this book to be slightly existential in the theme of the destitution we all face when we realize that our anticipations are always more pure than what actually occurs but I imagine this is just my imagination kicking into high gear. Anyways, for the cynic, this book is fantastic and don't get me wrong, Flaubert has a talent for the written word (no qualms with his prose) but the story is driven more by process than by plot and this, in the end, made the books simply okay."
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