Flaubert Gustave Gans Eric (1 results)

(1989). First edition, first printing. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket, with jacket art a detail of "The Widow" by Thomas Couture. Chronology of Flaubert's life and works, bibliography, index. MADAME BOVARY, first published in book form in 1857, is analyzed as one of the first works of modernism, as opposed to the realistic tradition with which it is often identified. Gans discusses the use of an impersonal narrator, and a female protagonist. …