{"product_id":"9781681377162-the-letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1880","title":"Steegmuller Francis - The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert : 1830 - 1880 - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert's correspondence Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert's letters it is that the function of great art is not to provide answers. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert is above all a record of the intransigent questions personal political artistic with which Flaubert struggled throughout his life. Here we have Flaubert's youthful sensual outpourings to his mistress the poet Louise Colet and as he advances still unknown into his thirties the wrestle to write Madame Bovary. We hear too of his life - changing trip to Egypt as described to family and friends and then there are lively exchanges with Baudelaire with the influential critic Sainte - Beuve and with Guy de Maupassant his young prote ge . Flaubert's letters to George Sand reveal her as the great confidante of his later years. Steegmuller's book a classic in its own right is both a splendid life of Flaubert in his own words and the ars poetica of the master who laid the foundations for modern writers from James Joyce to Lydia Davis. Originally issued in two volumes the book appears here for the first time under a single cover.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert : 1830 - 1880\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Steegmuller Francis\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781681377162\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 640 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Literature: History \u0026amp; Criticism","brand":"Steegmuller Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622933307697,"sku":"IN-G-9781681377162","price":20.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781681377162.jpg?v=1724706761","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781681377162-the-letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1880","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}