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Gustave Flaubert (18211880), one of France's leading exponents of literary realism, was born in Rouen. He arrived in Paris in 1840 to study law but soon returned to his hometown, where he largely remained, focused on his writing in the family home in Croisset. Provincial life was the focus of Madame Bovary, but a trip to Egypt and the Middle East gave him inspiration for Salammb. He died at the age of fifty-eight. Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has translated Balzac's Lost Souls and Lost Illusions, d'Aurevilly's Diaboliques, and Stendhal's Italian Chronicles and Red and Black, all published by the University of Minnesota Press, as well as Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Germinal, a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize.
""A perfect picture of the confusion, wrong turns, and bad directions that seem inseparable from growing up.""—Michael Wood, Lapham’s Quarterly ""Flaubert, among other talents, proves a stunningly scrupulous historical novelist, bringing us a richly textured account of the aspirations, illusions, and defeats of the insurgents.""—Peter Brooks, Publishers Weekly ""Sentimental Education is a new translation of a classic novel about youthful optimism curdling into cruel cynicism in the face of dissatisfaction.""—Foreword Reviews ""This great masterpiece, often undervalued, rises to a penultimate chapter you will never forget...It is one of the most perfectly written, emotionally powerful scenes in all fiction.""—The Washington Post ""This newest translation by MacKenzie (Univ. of St. Thomas) is superb. An expert translator (Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary), MacKenzie avoids anachronisms and colloquialisms. He captures Flaubert’s voice and delivers the first English version of Flaubert’s definitive text, as published by Gisèle Séginger in Gustave Flaubert, Oeuvres complètes (2021).""—CHOICE ""Sentimental Education has an incredible ending. It’s bleak, but also incredibly funny, and I’ll never forget it.""—Rachel Kushner in ELLE Magazine ""Raymond MacKenzie’s translation is excellent.""—Michael Wood, London Review of Books
