{"product_id":"9780996647946","title":"The Egyptian Guide: From Jihad to Joy","description":"\u003cp\u003eGustave Flaubert, one of the key figures in literary modernism, is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. This notably involved the attempt to eliminate from his prose all sorts of assonances, consonances, and repetitions, in large measure by reading his sentences in a loud voice—the test of what he called the \u003ci\u003egueuloir\u003c\/i\u003e (from \u003ci\u003egueuler,\u003c\/i\u003e to yell). And yet when one examines closely the prose in his first novel, \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary,\u003c\/i\u003e one becomes aware of a host of repetitions that appear to go directly against his stylistic ideal, revealing a level of “resistance” to that ideal at the very heart of his writing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Michael Fried presents two long essays: the first on \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary,\u003c\/i\u003e in which the problem of critical understanding posed by this discovery is explored in depth; and the second on Flaubert’s remarkable second novel, \u003ci\u003eSalammbô,\u003c\/i\u003e in which the conflict between the drive for perfection and certain automatistic tendencies in \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e is replaced by a determination to extend the rule of authorial will throughout every aspect and level of the text. Furthermore, drawing on his wide knowledge of nineteenth-century French painting and criticism, Fried suggests that there exist strong analogies between what goes on in Flaubert's writing and what can be seen to take place in the art of Courbet, Manet, and Legros.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andreas Bachmair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010435498224,"sku":"9780996647946","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996647946_p0.jpg?v=1763940615","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996647946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}