Flaubert year, in Rouen: an original exhibition plunges you into the head of the writer
Through Fabien Massin
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Get inside Flaubert’s head. Here is what is on offer in the exhibition entitled “In the head of Gustave Flaubert” – the bicentenary of which is being celebrated this year – at the Departmental Archives of Seine-Maritime, in Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
Affections, weather, passions …
“The exhibition In the head of Gustave Flaubert makes the visitor penetrate into the bubbling spirit of the writer, compartmentalized in the manner of phrenology, presents Virginie Jourdain, head of the cultural mediation service at the Departmental Archives of Seine-Maritime , curator of the exhibition. In vogue and then ridiculed at the time of Flaubert, this pseudo-science classified human faculties and assigned them a specific place in the brain. The spirit of the artist is restored like a cabinet of curiosities. “
The exhibition evokes his affections (family, loves, friends), his relationship to space (here and elsewhere), to time (apprehension of various facts and historical facts) and to money (which does not interest him ), as well as his passion for books and his way of working.
Unlimited curiosity
We discover a Gustave Flaubert, a charming man in life, close to his family and friends, and whose curiosity was otherwise limitless. A man who also suffered from epilepsy, and who had to seek treatment all his life. Among the documents presented, we can cite a letter from Flaubert at the age of 11, a letter from Maupassant to Tourgueniev announcing the death of Flaubert, the unpublished manuscript La Cange, which evokes the trip to the East and which has just made the object of a publication, the deed of sale of the house of Croisset, where he wrote all his work, etc.
Practical information :
Exhibition “In the head of Gustave Flaubert”, until January 8, 2022, at the Grammont cultural center, 42, rue Henri-II-Plantagênet in Rouen.
Free admission.
Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday 8:45 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed from December 24, 2021 to 1uh January 2022.
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