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Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary
Soledad Fox
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Description for Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary
Hardback. Tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel "Madame Bovary". Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
This book tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel Madame Bovary. It thus fills a major gap in the history of the novel and explores, for the first time, just what Flaubert meant when he said, while writing Bovary: "Je retrouve toutes mes origins dans le livre que je savais par coeur avant de savoir lire, Don Quichotte" (I can trace all my origins back to the book I knew by heart... ). ... Read more
This book tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel Madame Bovary. It thus fills a major gap in the history of the novel and explores, for the first time, just what Flaubert meant when he said, while writing Bovary: "Je retrouve toutes mes origins dans le livre que je savais par coeur avant de savoir lire, Don Quichotte" (I can trace all my origins back to the book I knew by heart... ). ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845192570
SKU
V9781845192570
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About Soledad Fox
Soledad Fox is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College. She has published articles and lectured on Spanish and French literature, and on exile and autobiographical writing. She spent 2004 as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar researching the life of Constancia de la Mora. This study combines personal documents (unpublished letters, memoirs, and photos) and official government files ... Read more
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