Volume 27, Number 5 · April 3, 1980
Love and Hate
By V.S. Pritchett
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857
selected, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 250 pp., $12.50
That experienced Flaubertian Francis Steegmuller now replaces an earlier selection of the novelist's famous letters between 1830 (when he was nine) until 1857 when he published Madame Bovary. There is a second volume to come. His translations are admirable and overcome the difficulty of catching the tune of Flaubert's prose; and the connecting narrative has more substance than a merely useful biography.
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