![]() ![]() But-for reasons that should become clear-let the reader beware. ![]() In making the work’s many subtle insights and magisterial rhetoric accessible to a wider audience, Carol Cosman’s English translation of the first section of Sartre’s first volume-with the rest to follow-is to be welcomed. For Sartre ventures to propose nothing less than a new method for understanding and judging humankind, its doings and products. Yet this three-volume inquiry (he never completed the fourth, with its projected critique of Madame Bovary) remains a work of immense importance. Jean-Paul Sartre’s monumental study of Gustave Flaubert, L’Idiot de la famille, originally published in 1971-72, is hardly the delightful “novel of suspense” that Simone de Beauvoir once amazingly called it. ![]() The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857. ![]()
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