Seth's review
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
thanks sir, I'll check it out...someday!!!
Seth's review
Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Seth's review
rating:
i had been looking for books that will unflinchingly, unevaluatingly look at how human beings feel and play through their desires. this fit that bill. flaubert has a way of being totally direct and without ornament while making the world his characters exist in seem sublime. frederic is (of course) entirely unsentimentalized, which makes his education truly worth following the whole way through. the way it begins with a childish crush on an older woman and follows all of frederic's journeys up the class ladder until everything goes haywire with the revolution is 1848 is great.
this book is still churning through my head and will be for a while. worthwhile both for plot and for its example of writing style.
this book is still churning through my head and will be for a while. worthwhile both for plot and for its example of writing style.
thanks sir, I'll check it out...someday!!!