A Simple Soul, a French Short Story by Flaubert

Name: A Simple Soul, a French Short Story by Flaubert
Brand: Saga Egmont International
SKU: 9782821107458
Price: 7.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-2-821-10745-8

de Gustave Flaubert (auteur), Paul Edwards (lecteur)

Maison d'édition : Saga Egmont International

avril 2022

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Résumé

Gustave Flaubert is one of the major figures of French literature. He was known for his scrupulous devotion to his style, sometimes working for a whole week to achieve a single page; he was made famous by his first novel, Madame Bovary. A Simple Soul, sometimes translated as A Simple Heart, is a short story containing a lifetime of human emotions. After her one and only love purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, the simple servant Félicité picks up work in a widow's house. There, she lives a lifetime of servitude, rarely leaving the home and devoting herself to others; but despite her life being seemingly pointless, her selflessness lead her to almost angelic heights. It has been said that no other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. This short story is utterly poignant and will change your definition of what it means to be simple.

Auteur

Gustave Flaubert (auteur)

Gustave Flaubert, né à Rouen le 12 décembre 18211 et mort à Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un écrivain français. Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, Gustave Flaubert a marqué la littérature française par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de réalisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des individus et de la société, et par la force de son style dans de grands romans comme Madame Bovary (1857), L'Éducation sentimentale (1869), Salammbô (1862), ou le recueil de nouvelles Trois contes (1877).