The Desert and the Dancing Girls
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Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, portrayed a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage,...
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Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, portrayed a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage, was published in 1857. This extract is from Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, a reconstruction of his formative journey to Egypt as a young man, beautifully portraying his sense of wonder and decadent surrender to the sensual delights of nineteenth-century Cairo.
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:57 pages
- Publication:2005
- Publisher:Penguin Books
- Edition:Pocket Penguin 70s #17
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:014102223X
- ISBN13:9780141022239
- kindle Asin:014102223X