This is the only edition of Madame Bovary available that includes the complete manuscripts from Flaubert's 1857 trial. This edition includes a substantial number of new explanatory annotations. Included are sixteen critical studies on the novel's central themes, twelve of them new to this edition, i[...]
Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Benja[...]