{"product_id":"2026200010225-secondhand-flaubert","title":"Flaubert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustave Flaubert stands as one of the most exacting and influential figures in the history of Western literature, a man who agonised over every sentence and transformed the novel into a work of art — and Benjamin F. Bart's landmark biography presents the full measure of that obsessive genius. Chronicling Flaubert's life from his bourgeois Norman upbringing through the tortured composition of Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education, and The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Bart uncovers the intimate tensions between the man and his art: the debilitating illness, the failed loves, the ferocious solitude of Croisset, and the relentless pursuit of le mot juste.\n\nBart argues that Flaubert cannot be understood apart from his contradictions — the romantic who despised romanticism, the realist who loathed reality, the artist who sacrificed everything for a beauty he could never quite possess. Drawing on an exhaustive command of primary sources, correspondence, and French literary scholarship, this authoritative study illuminates Flaubert's enduring influence on Maupassant, Joyce, and the modern novel itself. For anyone who has ever been arrested by the first line of Madame Bovary, this biography demands the question: what kind of man devotes his entire life to a sentence?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130663510235,"sku":"2026200010225-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7efe8907-c442-4fea-b0ba-c05cf576db8e.png?v=1786588110","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010225-secondhand-flaubert","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}