November - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534684530 ISBN 13: 9781534684539

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"November", ein Frühwerk Flauberts, kreist um den Eros als magisch-betäubende Kraft. Der damals einundzwanzigjährige Autor erzählt in halb träumerisch-romantischer, halb realistischer Perspektive vom erwachenden Liebesverlangen eines Jugendlichen. Die Liebe zur unerreichbaren Frau ergießt sich in einer phantasierenden, bilderreichen Sprache, die alles, Naturerlebnisse und überschwängliche Liebe, in einem breiten reißenden Strom vereint. Dieses Jugendwerk…

About this title

From the Publisher

First translation into English for over seventy years of a neglected literary gem by the author of ‘Madame Bovary’

From the Author

Autumn. And it is with a man’s recall of that season of life that there begins the most beautiful, unsparing, shaming and unashamed, emotionally and morally pitiless evocation of its antithesis, the season of fires ignited. Flaubert’s novella is an unsurpassed testament of adolescence.

Gustave Flaubert was barely twenty years old when he completed it in 1842. He was the one burning. ‘The puberty of the heart precedes that of the body.’ As a schoolboy aged fifteen he fell worshipfully in love with somebody’s wife. On his first travels beyond Rouen, where he was born, and still a virgin at eighteen despite tortuous sexual desires, he was made love to by the daughter of the proprietor of the hotel where he lodged in Marseilles. He did not forget either conquest the women made of him, soul or body; they were transposed into one, the woman Marie, in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1534684530
• ISBN 13: 9781534684539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86
• Editor: Hollybooks