Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Gustave Flaubert.

FLAUBERT, Gustave.

$750.00

Item Number: 137205

Paris: Librairie de France, 1922-1924.

The Edition du Centenaire of the complete illustrated works of Gustave Flaubert. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in, illustrated by Andre Favory, Georges Dufrenoy, Bernard Naudin, and Pierre Girieud. In near fine condition.

The leading exponent of literary realism, French novelist Gustave Flaubert is especially known for his debut novel Madame Bovary. Flaubert believed in the principle of finding "le mot juste" ("the right word"), which he considered the key to achieving quality in literary art. He famously avoided the inexact and the abstract and renounced the cliché. Flaubert published much less prolifically than was the norm for his time due to his painstaking style but exercised an extraordinary influence on members of various schools including Kafka, Nabokov, Guy de Maupassant, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, and Zola.