Flaubert and Don Quijote

by Soledad Fox and Soledad Fox Maura

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845193970
• ISBN13: 9781845193973
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"