The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1857-1880 (Paper) - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave

 
9780674526419: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1857-1880 (Paper)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674526414 ISBN 13: 9780674526419
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

The second volume of Flaubert's correspondence details his travels, his relationships with Princess Mathilde Bonaparte and George Sand, the political climate, and his works, L'Education sentimentale, Salammbo, Three Tales, and other literary endeavors

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Críticas

Steegmuller'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. -- V. S. Pritchett "Atlantic Monthly" 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. -- Howard Moss "Washington Post Book World" 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. -- Victor Brombert "American Scholar" 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. -- Anatole Broyard "New York Times" [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. -- Victor Brombert "American Scholar"

Reseña del editor

An 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. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674526414
ISBN 13 
9780674526419
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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