Flaubert's Gueuloir: On Madame Bovary and Salammbô

by Michael Fried

A leading art critic and historian offers a new and revolutionary analysis of Flaubert's literary style

Gustave Flaubert, one of the key figures in literary modernism, is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. This notably involved the attempt to eliminate from his prose all sorts of assonances, consonances, and repetitions, in large measure by reading his sentences in a loud voice--the test of what he called...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030018705X
• ISBN13: 9780300187052
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"