{"product_id":"letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1880","title":"Letters Of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1880 By Flaubert, Gustave","description":"“If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert’s correspondence,” Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert’s letters, “it is that the function of great art is not to provide ‘answers.’” \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Gustave Flaubert \u003c\/i\u003eis above all a record of the intransigent questions—personal, political, artistic—with which Flaubert struggled throughout his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere we have Flaubert’s youthful, sensual outpourings to his mistress, the poet Louise Colet, and, as he advances, still unknown, into his thirties, the wrestle to write \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e. We hear, too, of his life-changing trip to Egypt, as described to family and friends, and then there are lively exchanges with Baudelaire, with the influential critic Sainte-Beuve, and with Guy de Maupassant, his young protégé. Flaubert’s letters to George Sand reveal her as the great confidante of his later years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteegmuller’s book, a classic in its own right, is both a splendid life of Flaubert in his own words and the ars poetica of the master who laid the foundations for modern writers from James Joyce to Lydia Davis. Originally issued in two volumes, the book appears here for the first time under a single cover.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57573673763198,"sku":"NW9781681377162","price":17.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781681377162.jpg?v=1783208501","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1880","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}