Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence - Hardcover

Gustave Flaubert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679418989 ISBN 13: 9780679418986

Publisher: Knopf, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of letters between literary greats with two very different lifestyles reveals their shared passion for art, their common qualities of goodness, their candor, and their humor.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Publishers Weekly:

It is difficult to imagine two people less alike than romantic, freewheeling George Sand (1804-1876) and impeccably refined Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Yet the two French writers sustained a warm, touching friendship from 1863 until Sand's death. Their vibrant, expansive correspondence is well served by this expertly translated selection of more than 400 letters. During the German occupation of 1870-1871, Flaubert, forced to lodge Prussian officers, laments the "civilized savages" of modern warfare: Sand, outraged at the horrors of the Commune, sees her proletarian dreams crumbling. Elsewhere Madam e Bovary's creator, for whom "cynicism is next to chastity," fulminates over the bourgeoisie, philistines, publishers, the writer's lowly status and the damned human race. The older Sand tries to allay his hypochrondria, his loneliness, his rages and melancholy; at one point she scolds him and urges marriage as a solution to his problems. Both writers disclose their deepest needs and longings in these affectionate, unguarded letters.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679418989
• ISBN 13: 9780679418986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428