Flaubert Vs Marxism

Modernity can be considered as an approach in revolutionizing the Instruments of production, arts, relations and with relations the whole of society wherein an uncertainty and disturbance is attached and felt , in its epochs. Such a burgeoning and exhilarating approach for the Bourgeoisie upliftment is felt during this period, however it is important to note that it is during the modernism era that the works of Ezra Pound, WH Auden, Sartre,Trotsky (to name a few ) came in to the fore who were highly influenced by Karl Marx and Gustavo Flaubert. Marx and Flaubert were self reflexively experienced and wrote about the subjective world of capitalism .They considered relations and humanism as their core thoughts on their writings , it is on this …show more content…
The detailed explanation by Karl Marx in 'To The Critique Of Hegel's Philosophy Of Right’, he says “The task of history, therefore, once the world beyond the truth has disappeared, is to establish the truth of this world. The immediate task of philosophy, which is at the service of history, once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked, is to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms. Thus the criticism of heaven turns into the criticism of the earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics” . The above quote is one of the most suitable determinant for considering the historical progress as the way how religion turns to be a law, heaven to the criticism of earth , infact Marx was an environmentalist too and his love for economics would have sprouted out of his concern for the …show more content…
While it was history and economics that Marx kept close to his heart it was the love of art that Flaubert thought Is a way for historical progress. For Flaubert, romanticism was not the only culprit in the disillusionment which spurred him to cut ties with the world of public life and politics. For him, society was corrupt at its core, so that even though enlightenment ultimately seems to triumph over romanticism, it is not portrayed in more ingratiating lines. Virginia Woolf, in a characteristically Flaubertian moment of anxiety, said that we go to novelists not for sentences but for chapters, and "Madame Bovary," of course, holds together wonderfully. The details, the thousands of details, are stunning in their exactitude, their lyricism, their comedy, and yet they also make a perfect whole. How comic it is, for instance, when Flaubert reveals that the volumes of Charles Bovary's medical dictionary were "uncut, but with their bindings damaged from being bought and sold so frequently." How funny and painful it is when, after the great ball at La Vaubyessard, where Emma has tasted a life of glamour, Charles, on returning home, rubs his hands together and exclaims: "How nice it is to be back home again!" The great