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Flaubert and Don Quijote
Soledad Fox
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Description for Flaubert and Don Quijote
Paperback. 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. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
This book tells the story of how Flauberts admiration for Cervantes Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flauberts 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 ... Read more
This book tells the story of how Flauberts admiration for Cervantes Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flauberts 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193973
SKU
V9781845193973
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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 This study combines personal documents (unpublished letters, memoirs, and photos) and official government files ...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
Reviews for Flaubert and Don Quijote
The study is full of insights and is made by a very subtle and intelligent scholar who has a rare capacity not to force the material, but to listen to its voice with extraordinary respect and acumen.
Mikhail Iampolski, professor, comparative literature, New York University A fascinating, authoritative study of Don Quijote and Madame Bovary, written with precision ... Read more
Mikhail Iampolski, professor, comparative literature, New York University A fascinating, authoritative study of Don Quijote and Madame Bovary, written with precision ... Read more