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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674526406

ISBN-139780674526402

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Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLetters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880

SubjectEuropean / French, Literary

Publication Year1982

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorGustave. Flaubert

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight39.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN79-013505

Dewey Edition19

ReviewsSteegmuller's connecting narrative and his annotations make this second volume as rich and attaching as the first. And, for once, Flaubert is seen alive and enacting himself., These letters have the same fascination and compelling narrative drive as those in the first volume...We have, in the guise of letters, what comes close to being a full-fledged biography., These letters have the same fascination and compelling narrative drive as those in the first volume... We have, in the guise of letters, what comes close to being a full-fledged biography., [Steegmuller's] ear is so keenly attuned to the modulations of this correspondence and his craft is so accomplished that the English text is, as it were, transparent and trans-vocal. It is the voice of Flaubert we hear or, more precisely, the oral qualities of his epistolary style. Steegmuller plays Flaubert for us the way a musician plays the music of a master., Steegmuller...is again a deft, witty and indefatigable commentator, stitching Flaubert's correspondence together with all the background information we need in order to appreciate it. Among his many fine asides, Mr. Steegmuller tells us that Proust disliked the style of Flaubert's letters even more than that of his novels; that Gide kept his volumes of them beside his bed like a bible.

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Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal843/.8

Table Of ContentIntroduction I. The Writing of SalammbO, 1857-1862 II. The Battle of SalammbO, 1862-1863 III. Interlude: Society, 1863-1866 IV. The Beginning of l'Éducation Sentimentale, 1863-1866 V. Enter George Sand. The Completion and Reception of l'Éducation Sentimentale, 1866-1869 VI. Interlude: Early 1870 VII. The War and the Commune, 1870-1871 VIII. The Temptation of Saint Anthony. The Beginning of Bouvard and PÉcuchet. Le Candidat. Three Tales, 1872-1877 IX. The Last Years. Bouvard and PÉcuchet, 1877-1880 Appendix I: Flaubert's Niece Caroline Appendix II: "Reply to a Friend" by George Sand Appendix III: The Broken Friendship: Flaubert and Laporte Appendix IV: The Pavilion at Croisset Works of Related Interest Index

SynopsisAn acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times., Having been acquitted of the charge of "outrage of public morals and religion" brought against him upon the publication Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert found himself, in 1857, a celebrity and one of the most admired literary men of his day. Francis Steegmuller's volume of Flaubert's letters from the years culminating in that triumph was hailed by the New York Times as "brilliantly edited and annotated...a splendid, intimate account of the development of a writer who changed the nature of the novel." It went on to garner widespread critical acclaim and to win an American Book Award for Translation. Now, in the second volume, we see Flaubert in the years of his fame--the years in which he wrote Salammbô , L'Éducation sentimentale , The Temptation of Saint Anthony , Three Tales , and the unfinished Bouvard and Pecuchet . In writing the novels, Flaubert followed his precept, "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere," but in these letters of his maturity he gives full scope to his feelings and expresses forceful opinions on matters public and private. We see Flaubert traveling to Tunisia to document the exotic Salammbô, then calling on his own memories and those of his friends to bring to life the Revolution of 1848 and the loves of his hero Frederic Moreau in the pages of L'Éducation sentimentale , which many today consider his greatest novel. Flaubert is taken up by the Second Empire Court of Napoleon III and Eugenie, and becomes a lifelong friend of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. But the most powerful feminine presence in this volume is the warm, sympathetic George Sand, with whom he maintains a fascinating correspondence for more than ten years. This dialogue on life, letters, and politics between the "two troubadours," as they called themselves, reveals both of them at their idiosyncratic best. The deaths of Flaubert's mother, of his closest friend and mentor, Louis Bouilhet, and of Théophile Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, and other intimates, and Flaubert's financial ruin at the hands of his beloved niece Caroline and her rapacious husband, make a somber story of the post war years. Despite these and other losses, Flaubert's last years are brightened by the affection of Guy de Maupassant, Zola, and other younger writers. Together with Francis Steegmuller's masterly connecting narrative and essential annotation, these letters, most of which appear here in English for the first time, constitute an intimate and engrossing new biography of the great master of the modern novel., Having been acquitted of the charge of "outrage of public morals and religion" brought against him upon the publication Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert found himself, in 1857, a celebrity and one of the most admired literary men of his day. Francis Steegmuller's volume of Flaubert's letters from the years culminating in that triumph was hailed by the New York Times as "brilliantly edited and annotated...a splendid, intimate account of the development of a writer who changed the nature of the novel." It went on to garner widespread critical acclaim and to win an American Book Award for Translation. Now, in the second volume, we see Flaubert in the years of his fame--the years in which he wrote Salammb , L' ducation sentimentale , The Temptation of Saint Anthony , Three Tales , and the unfinished Bouvard and Pecuchet . In writing the novels, Flaubert followed his precept, "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere," but in these letters of his maturity he gives full scope to his feelings and expresses forceful opinions on matters public and private. We see Flaubert traveling to Tunisia to document the exotic Salammb , then calling on his own memories and those of his friends to bring to life the Revolution of 1848 and the loves of his hero Frederic Moreau in the pages of L' ducation sentimentale , which many today consider his greatest novel. Flaubert is taken up by the Second Empire Court of Napoleon III and Eugenie, and becomes a lifelong friend of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. But the most powerful feminine presence in this volume is the warm, sympathetic George Sand, with whom he maintains a fascinating correspondence for more than ten years. This dialogue on life, letters, and politics between the "two troubadours," as they called themselves, reveals both of them at their idiosyncratic best. The deaths of Flaubert's mother, of his closest friend and mentor, Louis Bouilhet, and of Th ophile Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, and other intimates, and Flaubert's financial ruin at the hands of his beloved niece Caroline and her rapacious husband, make a somber story of the post war years. Despite these and other losses, Flaubert's last years are brightened by the affection of Guy de Maupassant, Zola, and other younger writers. Together with Francis Steegmuller's masterly connecting narrative and essential annotation, these letters, most of which appear here in English for the first time, constitute an intimate and engrossing new biography of the great master of the modern novel.

LC Classification NumberPQ2247.A2

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