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

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	:	Special 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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The interesting observations on life in Egypt in the 19th century don't make up for the repeated accounts of Flaubert's encounters with local prostitutes (including a fifteen year old, who if I understood the French correctly was also a victim of FGM), and his colonial attitude when describing the native people. Perhaps that's why it was free on Audible.

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.

Francis Steegmuller (translator and editor), probably doesn't take enough credit for this book - and Flaubert probably too much.In 1949/50 Gustave Flaubert (at the time 27) and Maxime Du Camp (a little younger, I think) made their grand tour of Egypt, before heading on to Beirut, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Italy. Flaubert kept a diary, which he embelished a number of years later, filling on some detail. He also writes letters, mostly to his mother, but also to a friend, Louis Bouilhet.

On two occasions, the editor inserts some of Flaubert's writings on Egypt done before his trip. They are absurd, 19th cent French romanticism that almost make Victor Hugo seem restrained. In his actual travel notes, Flaubert becomes a realist, selecting visual details, providing rapid character sketches, and inserting, as the subtitle says, his sensibility into what he experiences.

this guy was a pig! he was worse than Henry Miller! not only that, he kept referring to Egypt as "the Orient".

Francis Steegmuller (translator and editor), probably doesn't take enough credit for this book - and Flaubert probably too much.In 1949/50 Gustave Flaubert (at the time 27) and Maxime Du Camp (a little younger, I think) made their grand tour of Egypt, before heading on to Beirut, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Italy. Flaubert kept a diary, which he embelished a number of years later, filling on some detail. He also writes letters, mostly to his mother, but also to a friend, Louis Bouilhet.

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.