Delphi Classic. 2012. — 4729 p. Gustave Flaubert ( 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story...
Dalkey Archive, 2006. — 328 p. Preface by Raymond Queneau Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and Pécuchet is now considered to be one of Flaubert’s greatest masterpieces. In his own words, the novel is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce...A book in which I shall spit out my bile.” At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set...
570 p. Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns....
New York, Brentano. First edition 1919. 404 p. Many critics have said that one cannot read Flaubert without a sense of mental discomfort, and that the jarring effect of his stern analyzes destroys the sense of enjoyment. For some minds the mission of fiction is believed to be simply to amuse and please, not to startle nor to instruct; they consider the mild horrors of...
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