Education of Feelings

The story of gaining life wisdom through the cruel process of gradually losing all illusions is one of the favorite themes of French literature of psychological realism. However, few have succeeded in portraying this theme as deeply, intelligently, and ironically as Flaubert did in his brilliant novel "Education of Feelings." Young Frédéric Moreau, dreaming of becoming a writer and secretly and hopelessly in love with the married (and faithful to the unworthy scoundrel husband) beauty Madame Arnaud, faces a long and arduous journey from youthful idealism, purity, and naivety to a cold understanding of how this world is actually arranged – and the life experience will be bitter not only for him but for a considerable number of women who had the misfortune of giving him their hearts...