Taking as its starting point a recent biography of Flaubert, this article seeks to show how his famous aesthetic of impersonality and 'art for art's sake' was closely integrated with a moral view of life developed very early in life in relation with other members of his family, such that it was imperative to 'be good' but all social and conventional manifestations of goodness, were false, superficial and boring. The article then tracks the dominance of this attitude in works as different as Madame Bovary and Salambo, suggesting that far from offering a universal prescription of 'how to write', Flaubert was doing no more than codifying his own particular position in French society at the time.
Yuk’s Last Laugh, Life of Flaubert, 2016-12-15.
Autori: | PARKS, TIMOTHY HAROLD |
Data di pubblicazione: | 15-dic-2016 |
Titolo: | Yuk’s Last Laugh, Life of Flaubert |
Rivista: | |
Editore: | London Review of Books |
Volume: | 38 |
Fascicolo: | 24 |
Pagina iniziale: | 17 |
Pagina finale: | 20 |
Numero di pagine: | 4 |
Revisione (peer review): | esperti non anonimi |
Rilevanza: | internazionale |
Lingua: | English |
URL: | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/tim-parks/yuks-last-laugh |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore L-LIN/03 - Letteratura Francese Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate |
Keywords: | Flaubert; art for art's sake; received ideas |
Abstract: | Taking as its starting point a recent biography of Flaubert, this article seeks to show how his famous aesthetic of impersonality and 'art for art's sake' was closely integrated with a moral view of life developed very early in life in relation with other members of his family, such that it was imperative to 'be good' but all social and conventional manifestations of goodness, were false, superficial and boring. The article then tracks the dominance of this attitude in works as different as Madame Bovary and Salambo, suggesting that far from offering a universal prescription of 'how to write', Flaubert was doing no more than codifying his own particular position in French society at the time. |
Numero degli autori: | 1 |
Supporto: | A stampa |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.02 Recensione in rivista |
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