A Simple Heart E-Book

Sandrine Guihéneuf

• Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 14

Beschreibung

What should we learn from A Simple Heart, the moving short story with an almost mystical dimension? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
You will find in this file :
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Félicité, Madame Aubain and Loulou
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: the narrative scheme, the actantial scheme and between tale and short story
A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.

Leseprobe

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

FRENCH WRITER

•Born in 1821 in Rouen

•Died in 1880 near Rouen

•Some of his works:

°Salammbô (1862), novel

°L'Éducation sentimentale (1869), novel

°Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), unfinished novel

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. Passionate about writing, he discovered his literary vocation at an early age. In 1841, he left for Paris to study law, which he soon abandoned. The author then settled in Croisset, on the banks of the Seine, and frequented the literary societies of the time. He became friends with Charles Baudelaire, Ivan S. Tourgueniev, George Sand and Guy de Maupassant, for whom he was a model.

A sickly perfectionist, he defended reflective literature and dreamed of writing “a book about nothing”. His work, which is also distinguished by the depth of the psychological study of the characters, heralds the many developments that the novel will undergo in the 20th centurye. Flaubert died in 1880, leaving behind him several unfinished novels and abundant correspondence.

A SIMPLE HEART

A STORY STEEPED IN MYSTICISM

•Genre: Storytelling

•Reference edition:Un cœur simple, in Trois Contes, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1983, 191 p.

•1re edition: 1877

•Themes: devotion, affection, death, religion

Un cœur simple is a short story written by Flaubert as part of a triptych entitled Trois contes. This collection brings together the story under study, La Légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier and Hérodias. It was first published in 1877, but each of the stories was first published individually in the journal Le Moniteur universel.

A Simple Heart tells the story of Félicité, a young uneducated peasant girl who enters the service of a middle-class widow from Pont-l'Évêque, Mme