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Wall, Geoffrey Frank was born on July 10, 1950 in Chester, England. Son of Frank and Gweneth Wall.
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Flaubert / Flaubert. A Life (Spanish Edition)
(¿Cómo es posible que Flaubert, siendo el último gran romá...)
¿Cómo es posible que Flaubert, siendo el último gran romántico francés, parezca tan moderno en la actualidad? En esta magnífica biografía, Geoffrey Wall investiga por qué el autor de Madame Bovary sigue cautivando a los lectores modernos. Gustave Flaubert --un hombre alto, rubio, de ojos verdes y una potente voz de actor-- vivía tranquilamente con su madre viuda, escribía novelas a un ritmo de cinco palabras por hora y, de vez en cuando, se escapaba a París para airearse un poco. Fue un gran viajero -conoció Córcega, Egipto, Grecia, Italia, Marruecos- y se relacionó con cortesanas, actrices, acróbatas, gitanos y desheredados de toda clase. Flaubert detestaba a sus respetables vecinos provincianos, y ellos, a su vez, colmaron su nombre de infamias y consiguieron que lo procesaran por haber escrito un libro que consideraban inmoral. La gente decente evitaba su compañía y él les devolvía el cumplido. Todo ello no ha evitado, sin embargo, que los personajes de Flaubert, sus novelas y relatos, sigan habitando en la imaginación literaria popular con la misma autoridad que los de Shakespeare o Joyce.
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Flaubert: A Life
( The life and times of the great French novelist A blo...)
The life and times of the great French novelist A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor's voice, Gustave Flaubert, perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century, lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his incomparable novels at a rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, and they, in turn, helped to ensure his infamy as a writer of immoral books. Geoffrey Wall's remarkable new biography weaves together the inner dramas of Flaubert's provincial life with the social intrigues of his regular escapes to Paris, where he became a friend to Turgenev and was praised by the emperor, and the flamboyant excitements of his travels throughout the Mediterranean, on which he kept company with courtesans, acrobats, gypsies, and simpletons. Flaubert's contradictory experiences nurtured his peerless novels and stories, and Wall's dynamic interpretation of them gives us a new understanding of his sometimes pitiable, always unforgettable characters: an Egyptian hermit tormented by voluptuous visions, a melancholy doctor's wife eating arsenic to escape debt and despair, an old country woman who worships a stuffed parrot. Wall's is the first full-fledged modern biography of this immeasurably talented and influential artist. Flaubert brilliantly re-creates the life and times of a writer who wrote to within an inch of his life and whose importance will never diminish.
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Geoffrey Frank Wall
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Bachelor with honors, University Sussex, Brighton, England, 1972. Bachelor in Philosophy, University Oxford, England, 1974.
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Lecturer University York, England, 1975—1995, senior lecturer England, 1995—2002, reader England, since 2002. Editor Cambridge (England) Quarterly, 1998.
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Flaubert: A Life
( The life and times of the great French novelist A blo...)
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Flaubert / Flaubert. A Life (Spanish Edition)
(¿Cómo es posible que Flaubert, siendo el último gran romá...)
- (Flaubert: A Life ) Author: Geoffrey Wall Oct-2002
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Flaubert: A Life
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Children: Gianna, Mal, Tom, Chris.
