Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

by Flaubert, Gustavo; Sand, George; Jacob, Alphonse; Steegmuller, Francis; Bray, Barbara; Steegmuller, Francis

• ISBN13: 9781860464362
• ISBN10: 186046436X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

In 1862 Gustave Flaubert published Salammbô, his novel of ancient Carthage. It met with a largely unenthusiastic response from the critics. One of the few who admired it was George Sand, then at the height of her popularity as a novelist and playwright, and she wrote a review championing the book. Flaubert wrote to thank her and thus began a correspondence and a friendship that were to last until Sand's death in 1876. In this correspondence, 'one of the great literary exchanges,' as Julian Barnes has called it, two writers of genius set down their thoughts on an enormous variety of subjects, from their views on the craft of fiction and on the Paris theatre to their reactions to public events such as the Franco-Prussian War and the conflict between monarchists and republicans. In their letters Flaubert and Sand created a masterpiece as compelling as any of their novels.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Francis Steegmuller
Chronologies:
The Years 1804--65	xv
George Sand
The Years 1821--65	xxi
Gustave Flaubert
Sand~Flaubert Chronology, 1866--76	xxvii
Before 1866	3	(6)
1866	9	(44)
1867	53	(44)
1868	97	(32)
1869	129	(48)
1870	177	(42)
1871	219	(36)
1872	255	(44)
1873	299	(32)
1874	331	(30)
1875	361	(22)
1876	383	(18)
Translator's Afterword	401	(2)
Bibliography	403	(6)
Index	409