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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 Paperback | Pages: 230 pages

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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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Title	:	Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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UGHHH. Sometimes you should never read something personal by an author because you're going to find out they're repugnant as human beings. Flaubert seems chipper and makes jokes about people being beaten, raped and otherwise trod upon. There is so much more that is wrong with this travelogue through Egypt, but I'd rather just leave it at that. The occasional nice turn of phrase or observation does not make up for all the terrible trash in this book.

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.

Interesting and shocking facts from travel notes about Egypt mid 1880s. Book is well edited in the way notes are put together. It's clear in the notes of Flaubert and his friend Maxime that the same event/ moment could be viewed and described differently from one person to another. Cover photo is pretty but it could have definitely been better to get something related to Egypt itself.

I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this book very much if I hadn't been here in Egypt. It really is just a collection of travel notes and observations, but when read in it's proper setting, it provides an interesting perspective on Egyptian culture and history. It's amazing how some things simply remain in this seemingly fast moving world. All the monuments and buildings described in this book are still here, and life in Egypt doesn't seem to have changed much since Flaubert made his journey.

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

Flaubert, famous for Madame Bovary, took a trip to Egypt when in his late 20s. Penguin has published excerpts from his journal and letters to his parents in this volume. I thought that because it was about travel through the eyes of a very gifted writer, that maybe he would verbalize some of what I love about foreign countries, foreign sites and foreign experiences. He did offer some beautiful descriptions of places, and exciting moments, but for the most part he offered stories about being lewd

I liked this book at the beginning - Flaubert is a masterful and entertaining writer. However, his accounts of the grotesque and the debauched got pretty repetitive. There are a few moments of introspection, but also a lot of orientalist nonsense. I was expecting more from one of my favorite authors.