Flaubert In Egypt: A Sensibility On Tour
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In the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land of dazzling contradictions that would forever mark his literary imagination. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour chronicles that formative odyssey through the great novelist's own travel notes and private letters, translated from the French and assembled with scholarly precision by Francis Steegmuller into a vivid and unguarded portrait of a writer in the process of becoming himself. Flaubert's raw observations — by turns rapturous, ribald, melancholic, and acutely observant — present a man confronting the ancient and the sensual with equal ferocity, his prose alive with the restless energy of a genius still finding his voice. Steegmuller, one of the foremost Flaubert scholars writing in English, brings both rigorous editorial intelligence and an elegant biographical sensibility to the material, situating these dispatches within the broader arc of Flaubert's artistic development. The result is a work that illuminates not only the Egypt of the mid-nineteenth century — its monuments, its people, its beguiling otherness — but also the inner landscape of a literary titan on the cusp of greatness. For anyone who has ever wondered what fires forged the cool, perfectionist prose of Madame Bovary, the answer may lie buried in the sands of the Nile.
Author: Francis Steegmuller
Format: Hardback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
In the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land of dazzling contradictions that would forever mark his literary imagination. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour chronicles that formative odyssey through the great novelist's own travel notes and private letters, translated from the French and assembled with scholarly precision by Francis Steegmuller into a vivid and unguarded portrait of a writer in the process of becoming himself. Flaubert's raw observations — by turns rapturous, ribald, melancholic, and acutely observant — present a man confronting the ancient and the sensual with equal ferocity, his prose alive with the restless energy of a genius still finding his voice. Steegmuller, one of the foremost Flaubert scholars writing in English, brings both rigorous editorial intelligence and an elegant biographical sensibility to the material, situating these dispatches within the broader arc of Flaubert's artistic development. The result is a work that illuminates not only the Egypt of the mid-nineteenth century — its monuments, its people, its beguiling otherness — but also the inner landscape of a literary titan on the cusp of greatness. For anyone who has ever wondered what fires forged the cool, perfectionist prose of Madame Bovary, the answer may lie buried in the sands of the Nile.