Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%
Print this page

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year by Peter Brooks

by
December 2017, no. 397

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year by Peter Brooks

Basic Books, $45 hb, 264 pp, 9780465096022

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year by Peter Brooks

by
December 2017, no. 397

As we approach the end of what might be considered another pretty terrible year, it’s worth being reminded that every age has its tribulations. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks – Ivy League professor in comparative literature, and author of Henry James Goes to Paris (2007) – takes on a year in the history of France known as l’année terrible, a year whose physical and psychological violence would, once again, reopen the scars left by France’s revolution of 1789.

Gemma Betros reviews 'Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year' by Peter Brooks

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year

by Peter Brooks

Basic Books, $45 hb, 264 pp, 9780465096022

You May Also Like