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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Gustave Flaubert

Paperback | Pages: 230 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 404 Users | 39 Reviews

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Title	:	Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 230 pages
Published	:	March 30th 1996 by Penguin Books (Penguin Classics) (first published 1849)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Classics. Northern Africa. Egypt. Cultural. France. Literature. 19th Century

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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.

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Original Title:	Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
ISBN:	0140435824 (ISBN13: 9780140435825)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Egypt

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It is sometimes difficult to imagine this fellow is responsible for some of the most impressive novels of western lit. Nothing much seems to point to his being either particularly observant or a devoted worker. Still travel literature of the era are fascinating for the perhaps unspoiled nature of the Egyptian antiquities being studied.

I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this book very much if I hadn't been here in Egypt. It really is just a collection of travel notes and observations, but when read in it's proper setting, it provides an interesting perspective on Egyptian culture and history. It's amazing how some things simply remain in this seemingly fast moving world. All the monuments and buildings described in this book are still here, and life in Egypt doesn't seem to have changed much since Flaubert made his journey.

916.2043 F587 1996

A steamy travelogue of Gustave Flaubert's jaunt through egypt told via the letters he wrote to his mother and his lover.There are plenty of prostitutes, pimps, transvestites, homo-sexuals among its breezy pages - to whet anyone's appetite. If you are looking for the descriptive sun-rise/sun-downer type of travelogue, this will not satisfy you. A great, romping read.

Gustave sure loved himself some prostitutes.

I enjoyed the captions that compared Flaubert's romanticist style to the realist style he started developing through his travels and first hand experience. The description of the sunset reflecting on the piece of skin between his socks and trousers is a much more interesting way to describe the light as compared to the way it bounced off the pyramids in his presence.

I liked this book at the beginning - Flaubert is a masterful and entertaining writer. However, his accounts of the grotesque and the debauched got pretty repetitive. There are a few moments of introspection, but also a lot of orientalist nonsense. I was expecting more from one of my favorite authors.