Sentimental Education

With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke.

Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every level. There is something farcical in his depiction of characters who aspire to act but are dogged by cliche at every turn.

To a greater extent even than Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education is an indictment of modern consumerism, contrasting the hollowness of material achievement with the lasting beauty of the ideal. Flaubert's study of success and failure offers us a terrible sadness in a terrible beauty, yet is one of the world's great comic masterpieces.

© 2012 Blackstone Publishing (ספר מוקלט ): 9781620641736
© 2013 Wordsworth Editions (ספר דיגיטלי ): 9781848704800

תורגם על ידי : Adrianne Tooke

תאריך הוצאה

ספר מוקלט : 1 ביולי 2012
ספר דיגיטלי : 1 בפברואר 2013