@article{Fock_2018, title={FLAUBERT’S MADNESS IN MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN: RECONCILING AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION}, volume={3}, url={https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/PAL/article/view/2614}, abstractNote={<p>The present article studies the relation between autobiography and fiction in Flaubert’s <em>Memoirs of a Madman</em>, elucidating the characteristics of madness as this work’s main theme and also as a bond permitting the fusion of these two elements in a dichotomy, applicable in fact to Flaubert’s entire opus. Analyzing the novelist’s attitude towards truth and beauty as deduced from <em>Memoirs</em> and also from later works, the author perceives this dualism as a quest for the credibility of beauty, and explains the particularities of Flaubert’s autobiographical presence. He stresses out the paradox of Flaubert glorifying Cartesian reason and simultaneously proclaiming himself as a madman in order to fictionalize and make overwhelming and passionate what is supposed to be autobiographical, thus moderate and trustworthy. Therefore, the madness in <em>Memoirs</em> is merely an arbitrary concept or denomination invented to reconcile reason and sensibility, as well as Flaubert’s other dichotomies caused precisely by this conflict; among them, the dichotomy autobiography-fiction.</p&gt;}, number={6}, journal={PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ}, author={Fock, Ignac}, year={2018}, month={Dec.}, pages={179-193} }