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A Sentimental Education

By: Gustave Flaubert, Douglas Parmee - Translator
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Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme. Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil, and countless affairs, Mme. Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity, and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century.

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I know that I read this in college and thought I had liked it, so thought I would revisit. Ugh. Part of the problem is the translation as Flaubert uses a lot of idioms that in this translation are obviously translated into the English equivalents - but the equivalents of, say, 1910. Very distracting. Also, there isn't a single sympathetic character in the entire book (think "Cousin Bette") and Frederic is the worst of the group. I made it through, but only so a) I knew how it ended (can an ending be both a letdown and predictable?) and b) so I'd never be tempted to listen to it again. A waste of 18 hours.

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