• Feb 4, 2014 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

The ruins of Paris left by the bloody repression of the Paris Commune in the spring of 1871 at once became a tourist attraction and the subject of remarkable photographic collections made for the tourist trade. Flaubert took the train from Rouen to Paris just as soon as it was possible to do so, and visited the ruins in the company of Maxime Du Camp. He linked his reaction to the ruins to the incomprehension that had met his novel of some eighteenth months earlier, L’Education sentimentale. The lecture will explore that link.

Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale University, where was the Founding Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, and currently Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. 

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