000			a
999			_c29841 _d29841
008			191119b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781590171165
082			_a843​.8 _bSTE
100			_aSteegmuller, Francis
245			_aFlaubert and Madame Bovary : a double portrait
260			_aNew York _bNYRB Classics _c2004
300			_axii, 374 p. _c20 cm.
365			_b17.95 _cUSD _d74.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references
520			_aFrancis 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.
650			_aMadame Bovary
650			_aFlaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
650			_aColet, Louise, 1810-1876
650			_aRelations with women
650			_a19th century - Biography
650			_aNovelists, French
942			_2ddc _cBK