Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Translations xi Introduction The Commune and the Right to Confusion 1 1 Why Confusion? Why the Commune? 13 2 The Time of Our Melancholy: Zola’s Débâcle 41 3 Mourning Triumphant: Hugo’s Terrible Year(s) 60 4 Science and Confusion: Flaubert’s Temptation 86 5 The Party of Movement: Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet 116 6 Democracy and Masochism: Zola’s Bonheur 149 7 The Filmic Commune 169 Notes 185 Bibliography 207 Index 221 vii ...