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New York. 1985. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393022064. 197 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature French Russian Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-For the first time, the complete correspondence exchange between Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev from their meeting in 1863 to Flaubert's sudden death in 1880 has been collected into a single edition and translated into English. These two giants of the nineteenth-century novel became intimate friends during the last twenty years of their lives. Their letters constitute a lively, vigorous communication of views on their own literary works and on the nature and importance of art, as well as on a range of contemporary issues, such as the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris theatrical scene, Naturalism, and their mutual friends: Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola, Georges Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Goncourt brothers. The correspondence also deals with matters of health: Flaubert was suffering terrible setbacks in his fortune and was prone to melancholy; Turgenev was dogged horribly by gout. One can only conclude that each was a truly sustaining force for the other and spurred one another on to overcome grief, illness, and literary limbo. What emerges is a loving friendship, rich and satisfying, of two childish, vain, and quickly aging geniuses. inventory #141.
