Madame Bovary: The End of Romance

By Eric Gans

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805779841
• ISBN13: 9780805779844
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

This book is an extremely incisive dissection of Flaubert

For anyone who has ever read "Madame Bovary" (arrogant literature professors included), this book is a must buy. Simply put, "The End of Romance" is the master analyzing "The Master". Writing with a remarkably clear and economical prosaic style, Mr. Gans shows exactly why most consider Flaubert's masterpiece to be the greatest novel of the French language. Not only does he give a short biography of the author, and analyse the novel's plot and main characters, but most importantly, he presents a thorogh discussion on the originality of the work (see chapter on the "comices agricoles")!