A Sentimental Education (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Paris, Obsession, Adultery, Students or student life
- Locales: Paris, France
Places Discussed
*Paris. France’s leading city functions as the setting for the novel on several levels. First, it exists on the purely physical level. Gustave Flaubert—who was once, like Frédéric early in the novel, a young law student in Paris—uses realistic details and names of streets, boulevards, monuments, and other landmarks to describe Frédéric’s life in Paris, meticulously reproducing the city of the pre-Haussmann 1840’s. Readers can map out Frédéric’s walks or carriage rides through Paris to the Latin Quarter, where he studies law; the Seine River,...
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