A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia

by Laurence M. Porter

Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame Bovary, is read in numerous comparative literature and French courses. His fiction set the standard to which other authors turned to learn their craft, and his cult of art and his unrelenting search for stylistic perfection inspired many later writers, such as Maupassant, Proust, Conrad, Faulkner, and Joyce. His denunciation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031330744X
• ISBN13: 9780313307447
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"