MEMORIAS DE UN LOCO - Gustave Flaubert

Memorias de un loco se presenta como un Journal intime, un diario sentimental, donde el joven Flaubert nos conduce, con ardor y emotividad, a los años del internado, de las dificultades de sentirse diferente a los demás, de los primeros intentos con las chicas, hasta la aparición del primer amor, apasionado y abrumador. La felicidad del deseo que impacta contra el desencanto de un sentimiento no correspondido, provocan y inspiran las inquietudes del escritor en esta novela epistolar.

"¡Amar, sentirse joven y lleno de amor, sentir la naturaleza y sus armonías palpitando en uno mismo, tener necesidad de esta fantasía, de esta acción del corazón y sentirse dichoso de ello! ¡Ah!, ¡los primeros latidos del corazón del hombre, sus primeras palpitaciones de amor!, ¡qué dulces y extrañas son! Y más tarde, ¡cuan necias y tontamente ridículas parecen! ¡Asombroso! En este insomnio, la pena y la alegría son inseparables."


Gustave Flaubert nació el 12 de diciembre de 1821 en Rouen, Normandía (Francia). Empezó estudiando Derecho, carrera que abandonó en el año 1844 debido a desequilibrios nerviosos y a la epilepsia. Esta inestabilidad psicológica, que le llevaba a ser tan tímido como neurótico, ocasionó que la mayor parte de su existencia se redujese a la permanencia en reposo en el hogar familiar, sito en la localidad de Croisset, en el campo, y en donde Gustave escribió sus obras más conocidas. A pesar de esta vida hogareña obligada, Flaubert viajó por varios países entre los años 1849 y 1851, entre ellos Egipto, Siria, Turquía o Italia y cultivó múltiples amistades literarias, manteniendo relaciones con George Sand, Emile Zola y Alphonse Daudet.Falleció a causa de una hemorragia cerebral el 8 de mayo de 1880.

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DIARIO DI UN PAZZO - Gustave Flaubert

Diario di un pazzo si presenta come un Journal intime, un diario sentimentale, nel cui il diciassettenne Flaubert ci conduce con emotività e trasporto agli anni della sua adolescenza, del collegio, ai primi timidi tentativi fino alla comparsa del primo grande amore, appassionato e disperato. La felicità e il desiderio che si schiantano contro la realtà di un sentimento non corrisposto, provocano e ispirano le inquietudini di uno dei più grandi romanzieri francesi, in questa novella epistolare che oscilla tra il Romanticismo e il Decadentismo. 

«Amavo.Amare, sentirsi giovane e pieno d’amore, sentire la natura e le sue armonie palpitare in te, aver bisogno di quest’utopia, di questa azione del cuore, e sentirsene felice! Oh! Quei primi battiti del cuore umano, quelle sue prime palpitazioni d’amore! Come sono dolci e strane! E poi, come appaiono banali e scioccamente ridicole! Che cosa assurda! In quell’insonnia c’è un tutt’uno di tormento e di gioia. È per vanità? Ah! Sicché l’amore non sarebbe altro che orgoglio? Bisogna, quindi, negare ciò che i più blasfemi rispettano? Bisognerebbe forse ridere del cuore? Ahimè! Ahimè! Le onde hanno cancellato i passi di Maria.»

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DIARY OF A MADMAN - Gustave Flaubert

Diary of a madman is a brilliant demonstration of the difficulties and complexities inherent in writing. At first sight it could seem a frustrating and fool text. It might appear incoherent and crisis-ridden, but at the end the reader could hear the voice of a writer who is, slowly but surely, preparing himself for the world’s literary stage. 

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France on 12 December 1821, the fifth of six children in a family of doctors. .In the 1830s Flaubert attended the Collége Royal de Rouen, writing for its newspaper, reading Shakespeare, travelling extensively and at the age of fourteen began in earnest his own writings, inspired by his unconsummated love affair at this time with the much older and married Elisa Schlésinger, that inspired Diary of a madman. He unsuccessfully studied law in Paris, and after the death of his father, Flaubert lived in Rouen for the rest of his life. His malady of nervous fits (epilepsy started when he was around twenty-two years old) caused him to be sequestered at home much of the time, while allowing him the peace to continue his writings. Flaubert embarked on a trip to Egypt and the Far East in 1851. In 1857 he published Madame Bovary,a portrait of the young provincial Emma Bovary as fallen woman and her adulterous liaisons. It was criticised then banned for a period after its first release. In 1870 Flaubert became very sick, but continued to write. Afflicted by syphilis and rapidly declining health, Flaubert died on 8 May 1880 due a brain hemorrhage.

«I was in love.What it is to love, to feel young and full of tenderness, to feel the harmonies of nature palpitating within you, to need this reverie and this action of the heart, to feel happy on account of it! Oh! Those first beatings of a man’s heart, his first palpitations of love! How strange and gentle they are! And later, how trite, how stupid and ridiculous they seem! What a strange thing! There is at once both torment and joy in this sleeplessness.»

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