The Family Idiot

The Family Idiot
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0226822311
ISBN-13 : 9780226822310
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Family Idiot by : Jean-Paul Sartre

An approachable abridgment of Sartre’s important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano. Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre’s overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert’s work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.

The Family Idiot

The Family Idiot
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : 9780226735160
ISBN-13 : 0226735168
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Family Idiot by : Jean-Paul Sartre

A psychoanalytic portrait of Flaubert with reference to the ideology of his period, the crisis in literature, and his role as one both influenced by all this and influencing the future of literature. -- Dust jacket.

Reading Sartre

Reading Sartre
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9780521152273
ISBN-13 : 0521152275
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Sartre by : Joseph S. Catalano

Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings.

The Idiot

The Idiot
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780143111061
ISBN-13 : 014311106X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Idiot by : Elif Batuman

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Life with My Idiot Family

Life with My Idiot Family
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0998474002
ISBN-13 : 9780998474007
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Life with My Idiot Family by : Kathy and Gary Picard

"It shouldn't happen, but it does. It shouldn't be a secret, but all too often it is, and life with my idiot family is evidence that childhood sexual abuse can happen anywhere, to any child. Kathy's story is so much more than a carthartic release though. She is living proof that we don't have to be defined by what others have done to us."--Back cover.

The Family Idiot

The Family Idiot
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 646
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226735192
ISBN-13 : 9780226735191
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Family Idiot by : Jean-Paul Sartre

A psychoanalytic portrait of Flaubert with reference to the ideology of his period, the crisis in literature, and his role as one both influenced by all this and influencing the future of literature. -- Dust jacket.

Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One

Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 98
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061143328
ISBN-13 : 0061143324
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One by : Alex Borstein

In addition to sharing detailed accounts of her highest highs and lowest lows, as well as her scathing views on the state of public affairs today, Mayor Lois Griffin also shares the pages of this book with the people who put her in office. By giving them such a strong voice in this record of history, she not only reveals how Quagmire pimped out the vote, Peter sold out to the media, Meg coped with sudden celebrity through sullen poetry, Stewie mounted yet another terrorist plot against her, disgraced former mayor West recovered from defeat, and she herself succumbed to the temptations of the job, she also reveals just how valuable she holds the ideals of democracy. Part biography, part town-ography, this no-holds-barred book comes with a strong message for all: It takes a village—and sometimes even a village idiot’s wife—to set things right in America again.

The Village Idiot

The Village Idiot
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Publisher : Melville House
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781612199825
ISBN-13 : 1612199828
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Village Idiot by : Steve Stern

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst to the competition, he has a secret advantage: his young friend, the immigrant painter Chaim Soutine, is hauling the tub from underwater. Soutine, an unwashed, misfit artist (who incidentally can’t swim) has been persuaded by the Italian to don a ponderous diving suit and trudge along the floor of the river Seine. Disoriented and confused by the artificial air in his helmet Chaim stumbles through the events of his past and future life. It’s quite an extraordinary life. From his impoverished beginnings in an East European shtetl to his equally destitute days in Paris during the Années Folles, the Crazy Years, from the Cinderella patronage of the American collector Albert Barnes, who raises him from poverty to international attention, to his perilous flight from the Nazi occupation of France, Chaim Soutine remains driven by his unrelenting passion to paint. To be sure, there are notable distractions, such as his unlikely friendship with Modigliani, who drags him from brothels to midnight felonies to a duel at dawn; there are the romances with remarkable women who compete with and sometimes salvage his obsession. But there is also, always on the horizon, the coming storm that threatens to sweep away Chaim and a generation of gifted Jewish refugees from a tradition that would outlaw their longing to make art. Wildly inventive, as funny as it is heart-breaking, The Village Idiot is a luminous fever-dream of a novel, steeped in the heady atmosphere of a Paris that was the cultural capital of the universe, a place where anything seemed possible.

Idiot Wind

Idiot Wind
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781786897374
ISBN-13 : 1786897377
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Idiot Wind by : Peter Kaldheim

In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flop-houses, pan-handling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of living hand-to-mouth forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison, to relationships lost and lamented. Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate collection of characters instils in him a new empathy and wisdom, as he journeys on a road less travelled.

Told by an Idiot

Told by an Idiot
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000001874819
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Told by an Idiot by : Rose Macaulay

The intellectual and moral history of a clergyman's family.