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Flaubert and Don Quijote

Flaubert and Don Quijote


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This book - now in paperback - 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 savais par coeur avant de savoir lire, Don Quichotte" (I can trace all my origins back to the book I knew by heart...). Several cultural and personal factors converged to establish the prominent place of Don Quijote in Flaubert's imagination, and these are dealt with in the book. But, it is the profound parallels between the two novels that clearly illustrate how Don Quijote permeates Madame Bovary in both subject and approach. One such parallel is Alonso Quijano and Emma Bovary's desire to imitate fiction, which reflects a kind of literary madness in which the attempt to impose the narrative conventions of romances on life only leads hero and heroine, respectively, to destruction, disappointment, and ultimately death. The influence did not stop at Bovary, for Flaubert's later grands romans, including the rewritten Education Sentimentale and Bouvard et Pecuchet, also display the quixotic hallmark. This study situates each author in his respective historical and aesthetic context, and provides key examples from Don Quijote and Madame Bovary, Flaubert's Correspondence, as well as his earlier novels. Flaubert's letters and novels show how the French author penetrated deeply into Cervantes' novelistic approach, and how his relationship to Don Quijote directly shaped his success at the crux of his career.
About the Author: Soledad Fox is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College. She has published articles and lectured on Spanish and French literature on exile and autobiographical writing, and is the author of Constancia del la Mora: International Voice for the Spanish Republic.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845193973
  • Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845193970
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2010
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr


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