Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait by Steegmuller, Francis
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait by Steegmuller, Francis

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual...
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Author: Francis Steegmuller
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait by Steegmuller, Francis

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

$45.18
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait by Steegmuller, Francis

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

$45.18
Author: Francis Steegmuller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Francis Steegmuller
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9781590171165

About the Author
Francis Steegmuller was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1906, and educated in the public schools of Greenwich and at Columbia University. He was the author of many works about French culture and its great literary figures; translator of Gustave Flaubert's letters and of the Modern Library edition of Madame Bovary. He was the recipient of many literary honors, including the National Book Award for his biography of Jean Cocteau, and he was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Steegmuller divided his life between New York City and Europe. In 1963, he married the novelist Shirley Hazzard. He died in Naples in 1994.

Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton, and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. A former president of the Modern Language Association and member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought. He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France.


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