Sentimental Education

A new translation of one of the most important of all French novels, admired for its artistry and its impact on the history of the genre
Flaubert's portrait of an idealistic but indecisive protagon ...

A new translation of one of the most important of all French novels, admired for its artistry and its impact on the history of the genre
Flaubert's portrait of an idealistic but indecisive protagonist suggests that in a disenchanted bourgeois world heroism can only be imagined in ironic terms. Fr'ed'eric Moreau's abortive search for fulfilment through love, art, and politics has new things to say in today's postmodern, ostensibly post-ideological age
Flaubert's experiments with form and narrative techniques inspired modernist writers in particular, and inspired the later experiments of Proust