FLAUBERT IN THE RUINS OF PARIS

From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's terrible year--summer 1870 through spring 1871From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in it s war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ru ins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his recently published novel, Sentimental Education, was prophetic of the u pheavals...[Read more]