Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 843.8 STE (Browse shelf) | Available | 032201 |
843.7 FLA Madame Bovary | 843.7 STE Charterhouse of Parma | 843.709 STE Memoirs of an egotist | 843.8 STE Flaubert and Madame Bovary : a double portrait | 843.8 FRA Red lily : immortals crowned by the french academy | 843.8 HEA Flaubert : Madame Bovary | 843.8 HUG Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
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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.
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