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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

Steegmuller, Francis
Brombert, Victor

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1590171160
ISBN13: 9781590171165
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 30 2004
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through friendships and love affairs, a trip to the Orient, nervous breakdown and tenuous recovery, and finally into the study, where a mind at once restless and jaded finds a focus in the precisely detailed reality of an imagined woman, utterly ordinary in her unhappiness, whose story was to revolutionize literature.

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