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Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about langauge and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist reading of Un Coeur, an assessment of Saint Julien as Flaubert's attempt to come to terms with his originality as a writer, and an interpretation of Hérodias as an autobiography of the writing process.
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John Gomez
reviewed Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints on August 04, 2019
Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints
The overall argument is very much bullshit backed up by several (and I assume) deliberate misreadings of Heidegger, Derrida, Nietzsche and Bataille. That allows Land to show off as a major badass, while secretly implementing a rather naïve faith in reason and scientific concepts while pretending to affirm a radically nihilist ethics. In this sense, he completely misses the spots where Bataille picks up on Hegel, precisely that the circular image of time (further extended through Nietzsche) allows him to avoid the catechontic trap of viewing time as a (Kantian) linear line of progress, the empty moralism for which Land still indirectly falls.
Yet to be fair, some of the discussions and problems posed in the book are not entirely worthless, and despite Land's neo-reactionary stance that dismisses certain major philosophical problems (of phenomenology, metaphysics, and most importantly [and related to Nietzsche and Hegel above, of the subject]) all the way without even bothering with considering the bodies of questions that justify them, responding rather superficially, the remaining sidewards movements and concepts may still have some value when detached from their primary orientation. Last, some marginal details from Bataille's Å“uvre are rather spot on, so it's not entirely a failure. What we have here is then a kind of frozen meal served, while, to put it gently, it still needs at least a little microwaving.
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