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Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From Francis Steegmuller
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From Francis Steegmuller
Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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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. | Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters