Franco Moretti
"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber,Â in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?,Thus begins Franco Morettiâ€™s study of the bourgeois in modernÂ European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits isÂ entwined around the analysis of specific keywords â€“ such as â€˜usefulâ€™Â and â€˜earnestâ€™, â€˜efficiencyâ€™, â€˜influenceâ€™, â€˜comfortâ€™, â€˜robaâ€™ â€“ and of theÂ formal mutations of the medium of prose. The book charts the riseÂ and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical, weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures.
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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature