Flaubert: The Making Of The Master
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of literary biography, Flaubert: The Making of the Master chronicles the early life and artistic development of Gustave Flaubert, one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Enid Starkie, a renowned Oxford scholar and biographer of French literature, presents a meticulous and authoritative account of Flaubert's formative years — from his provincial upbringing in Normandy to the painstaking creation of his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. Drawing on extensive research into letters, manuscripts, and contemporary accounts, Starkie illustrates how Flaubert's obsessive pursuit of the perfect sentence and his tortured inner life shaped one of the most influential bodies of work in Western literature. Written with scholarly rigour yet animated by a deep passion for its subject, this biography remains an essential companion to understanding the man behind the art.
Author: Enid Starkie
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of literary biography, Flaubert: The Making of the Master chronicles the early life and artistic development of Gustave Flaubert, one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Enid Starkie, a renowned Oxford scholar and biographer of French literature, presents a meticulous and authoritative account of Flaubert's formative years — from his provincial upbringing in Normandy to the painstaking creation of his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. Drawing on extensive research into letters, manuscripts, and contemporary accounts, Starkie illustrates how Flaubert's obsessive pursuit of the perfect sentence and his tortured inner life shaped one of the most influential bodies of work in Western literature. Written with scholarly rigour yet animated by a deep passion for its subject, this biography remains an essential companion to understanding the man behind the art.