Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation.Flaubert is diagnosis, Ezra Pound wrote, the whole of Flaubert, the whole fight for the novel as 'histoire morale contemporaine' was a fight against maxims, against abstractions, a fight back toward a human and/or total conception Book Details This novella showcases Flaubert's perfectly honed realism: a delicate counterpoint of daily events with their psychological repercussions. A Simple Heart is a heartrending sincere story of a maid, Flicit Barette, and her kind-hearted and forthright life, even when faced with abuse, poverty, loss. Flaubert's great saint endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, Félicité, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb.

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