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Title: Flaubert: A Biography
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0316533424
ISBN 13: 9780316533423
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Lottman, Herbert, Flaubert: A Biography

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Lottman's considerable reputation as a chronicler of French literary and intellectual lifehe has published an admired study of Camus and a book about Parisian intellectuals in the 1930s and '40s ( The Left Bank )will be further enhanced by this superb biography. Working with materials only recently made available, including the novelist's uncensored letters, Lottman painstakingly reconstructs Flaubert's strange and meticulous life in vivid detail. He demolishes several well-established myths, including those that the writer's celebrated slowness was linked to epilepsy, or alternatively to medications taken to control it. He was in fact a prolific writer, who was so self-critical that everything he produced had to be pondered and rewritten a dozen times. Flaubert emerges as one of the most remarkably dedicated writers ever, a man seemingly content with a life of solitude far from the mainstream of Parisian life, but with an extraordinary gift for friendshipexcept with women, who were lovers only. Lottman's biography is more than just a study of a man's life; as any good biography should, it evokes, with unfailing skill and with wit, an entire era. Illustrated.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, as well as that of the many well-known men and women of letters he counted among his friends (Sand, Zola, Maupassant, and the Goncourt brothers are only a few among them), have long served as a fertile resource for biographers. Lottman's flair for biography, however, makes this study eminently readable and richly informative, despite its emphasis on sexual exploits and its lack of literary analysis. Amorous adventures, travels, financial crises, literary tribulations--all are unveiled skillfully, providing a portrait that will satisfy anyone interested in the life of this famous 19th-century French writer.
- Anthony Caprio, American Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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