Modernity and Its Discontents
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| *Baudelaire: “to be a useful person has always appeared to me to be something particularly horrible”—expressed pure aristocratic disdain. | *Baudelaire: “to be a useful person has always appeared to me to be something particularly horrible”—expressed pure aristocratic disdain. | ||
| - | *Flaubert after completing [[Salammbo]]: “It will: 1) annoy the bourgeois; 2) unnerve and shock sensitive people; 3) anger the archaeologists; 4) be unintelligible to the ladies; 5) earn me a reputation as a pederast and a cannibal. Let us hope so.” | + | *Flaubert after completing [[Salammbô (novel) |Salammbo]]: “It will: 1) annoy the bourgeois; 2) unnerve and shock sensitive people; 3) anger the archaeologists; 4) be unintelligible to the ladies; 5) earn me a reputation as a pederast and a cannibal. Let us hope so.” |
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| * ''[[Civilization and its Discontents]]'' | * ''[[Civilization and its Discontents]]'' | ||
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Bohemia vs. Bourgeois: French Society and the French Man of Letters in the Nineteenth Century (1964) is a book by César Graña. It is also known as Modernity and its Discontents.
- Graña describes Stendhal’s horror of the lowness and meanness of the middle-class, and how “anyone who acquired a routine social obligation or worked at a profession received from Flaubert either casual scorn or mocking sorrow”.
- Baudelaire: “to be a useful person has always appeared to me to be something particularly horrible”—expressed pure aristocratic disdain.
- Flaubert after completing Salammbo: “It will: 1) annoy the bourgeois; 2) unnerve and shock sensitive people; 3) anger the archaeologists; 4) be unintelligible to the ladies; 5) earn me a reputation as a pederast and a cannibal. Let us hope so.”
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