The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 1, 1

by Jean-Paul Sartre

That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. Sartre writes, simply, in the preface to the book: "The Family Idiot is the sequel to The Question of Method. The subject:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226735095
• ISBN13: 9780226735092
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 638 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"