Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his recently published novel, Sentimental Education, was prophetic of the upheavals in France during this “terrible year,†and how Flaubert's life and that of his compatriots were changed forever.