Gustave Flaubert e o castigo histórico do mau leitor: leituras de Georg Lukács sobre A educação sentimental em diálogo com Dolf Oehler e Theodor Adorno

Abstract

This article aims to expose a brief reflection concerning the readings of Flaubert made by Georg Lukács throughout his work, starting with the Theory of the novel, passing through the Historical novel, then with “Balzac: Les Illusions Perdues?” and other contemporary or later works. The objective of this article is to expose the change in the position that Flaubert occupies in Lukács' literary criticism and to contrast it with Dolf Oehler's reading of the French writer, alongside discussions developed by Adorno about the changes in Lukacsian aesthetic criticism. In general, our interest is related to the theme of commitment: Sentimental education is a book that exposes a static reality in a neutral and merely illustrative way, or would there be, despite Frédéric's
impotence, a position on the narrated events, maybe even a call to action?