Flaubert in Egypt

A Sensibility on Tour

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller, Francis Steegmuller , Francis Steegmuller

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Penguin Classics
01 March 1996

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Classic travel writing

Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a ""sensibility on tour,"" Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

By: Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by: Francis Steegmuller, Francis Steegmuller
Translated by: Francis Steegmuller
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780140435825
ISBN 10: 0140435824
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 March 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for immorality ; Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pecuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.

Reviews for Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

When Gustave Flaubert travelled with a friend in Egypt in 1849, he had already become a writer and 'yearned for the East'. He vividly records his rapture on seeing the desert, mosques, pyramids and the sphinx, but is most excited by cities and the people he meets who range from sheikhs to whores, jugglers, snake charmers and acrobats. A lively and entertaining account, which provides much insight into the author's characters. (Kirkus UK)