
- 312 pages
- English
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About this book
Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert's art in relation to his tragic themes. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the features which contribute to Flaubert's total vision, while respecting the integrity of each work and discussing each novel in its own terms. The vision of Flaubert emerges, showing his artistic relevance to his time and to our own. Above all, the book brings out the poetic density and beauty of Flaubert's novels: the poetry of loss and constriction, the poetry of subjective time, the tragic poetry of frustration, and the poetry of unconquerable dreams.
Originally published in 1966.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Flaubert's Literary Temperament
- 2 Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Dreams
- 3 Salammbô: The Epic of Immobility
- 4 L'éducation Sentimentale: Profanation and the Permanence of Dreams
- 5 La Tentation De Saint Antoine: The Debaucheries of the Mind
- 6 La Légende De Saint Julien I'hospitalier: The Sin of Existing
- 7 Un Coeur Simple: Tenderness and Irony
- 8 Hérodias
- 9 Bouvard Et Pécucfiet: The Tragicomedy of Intellect
- 10 Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index