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November : fragments in a nondescript sytle / Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Andrew Brown ; [foreword by Nadine Gordimer].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
- Series:
- Hesperus classics
- Standardized Title:
- Novembre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction.
- Loneliness--Fiction.
- Loneliness.
- Social acceptance.
- Social acceptance--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 106 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hesperus, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notions of desire and longing to most remarkable effect. Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a young man withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life. His increasing hopelessness gives way to a yearning for romance--surely the love of a woman can deliver him the purpose he so craves? Convinced of the truth of this, he visits Marie, a kindhearted prostitute--yet Marie, too, is starved of love and longs for acceptance. Together, they form a tragic portrait of personal anguish, heralding the extraordinary outpouring of romantic longing found in Flaubert's later novels. Most famous for Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) is one of the undisputed masters of 19th century fiction.
- Contents:
- November 1.
- ISBN:
- 1843911124
- OCLC:
- 57166953
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