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A Simple Heart

Gustave Flaubert

Paperback | Pages: 62 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 4483 Users | 353 Reviews

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Title	:	A Simple Heart
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	The Art of the Novella
Pages	:	Pages: 62 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2004 by Melville House (first published 1877)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. Short Stories. European Literature. French Literature

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With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work was meant to be a tribute to George Sand—who died before it was finished—and was written in answer to an argument the two were having over the importance of realism. Although the tale displays his virtuosic gift for telling detail, and is based on one of his actual servants, Flaubert said it exemplified his belief that "Beauty is the object of all my efforts." This sparkling new translation by Charlotte Mandell shows how impeccably Flaubert achieved his goal.

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Original Title:	Un cœur simple
ISBN:	0974607886 (ISBN13: 9780974607887)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.53 From 4483 Users | 353 Reviews

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Thoughtful moving prose that moved me to joy and sadness in equal measure. A simple story of a simple woman who moves through life in a simple way, a story of warmth and lost love.A gentle story that left me truely happy and content; highly recommended.

A good Flaubert but not the best in my opinion. It follows the life of a woman string of misfortunes: first she lives an unhappy childhood, then found a job with a widow and her two children she focuses but they quickly leave the house , then it's his nephew's turn to die and so on.. What is to be saluted is of course the author's pen: the descriptions are very realistic and the writing magnificent. A tale that reads quickly and makes you want to rediscover Flaubert.

A novella about the sad life of a servant. It's well-written and bleak (which is mostly a good thing for books as far as I'm concerned), but I didn't find it fully engaging.

What is the breath of a (simple) soul?George Gurdjieff used to say that very few people have souls, one is not born with a soul, but only with a seed which can grow into a soul-which may not grow. One has to create the right soil, the right climate for it to grow, to bloom. But, how to provoke the spring to come to you so that your soul can flower?For Felicite part, a state of simple soul is an innocent and silent state, utterly relaxed and blissfully unaware of her own awareness. She lives her

Dostoyevsky and Flaubert hated one another, their styles are vastly different, and in that battle of literary heavyweights I have to go with Dostoyevsky, KO in the seventh. Though I later Read Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes which shed an interesting light on this novella, I don't quite see why mollycoddling the peasantry constitutes great literature. Flaubert seems to be saying "Isn't it fascinating that even the poor die?" Nice observation. Next.

Such a simple and touching story.Sometimes you don't need a lot of things to be happy in life. Even though religion and domestic life haven't given me the same peace and serenity I respect people who find joy in them.I liked the book overall, and Flaubert has a beautiful writing style that won me over in Madame Bovary. Probably the next book I'll read from him will be Sentimental Education, to shorten my physical to-read pile.

SincereA Simple Heart is a heartrending sincere story of a maid, Félicité Barette, and her kind-hearted and forthright life, even when faced with abuse, poverty, loss and loneliness. Gustave Flaubert wrote this short story under encouragement from his good friend and author George Sand. The challenge was to create the main protagonist as someone very different from the satirical and corruptible characters in his previous novels, such as Madame Bovary. The vivid images of the historic towns and