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Carol Cosman

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, an abridged edition by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Carol Cosman, edited by Joseph S. Catalano

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May 2023, no. 453
Brian Nelson reviews 'The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, an abridged edition' by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Carol Cosman, edited by Joseph S. Catalano,

The Family Idiot (originally published in French in three volumes in 1971–72) is a study of Gustave Flaubert (1821–80). It was published in a fine translation by Carol Cosman, in five volumes, between 1981 and 1994. The Sartre scholar Joseph S. Catalano has produced a skilful, beautifully edited abridgment of this gargantuan opus. 

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