by Gustave Flaubert · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070462858
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«Un cœur simple» is the short story by Gustave Flaubert, published by Folio in paperback (112 pages, in French).
The story follows Félicité, a humble and devout servant in nineteenth-century Normandy, who gives her life to others: she loves a man, her mistress's children, a nephew, and an old man she cares for, until she pours her affection into her parrot Loulou. Flaubert portrays with simplicity the devotion, loneliness, and emptiness of a dark existence.
Work originally published in 1877. This Folio Classique edition includes a preface by Albert Thibaudet and editing by Samuel Sylvestre de Sacy.
Suitable for readers of French classics and for school use, as it is a short text representative of nineteenth-century literature.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
