by Herbert Lottman · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233836
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This biography by Herbert Lottman about Gustave Flaubert caused a great stir in France by challenging certain myths about the life and work of the author of Madame Bovary. Lottman contrasted documents and correspondence to reveal unknown aspects of Flaubert, such as his alleged childhood incapacity, his adolescent love for Elisa Schlesinger, and his love affairs with Louise Colet and Juliet Herbert. The work shows Flaubert as an awakened teenager and a man concerned about his literary career in Paris, frequenting the political and intellectual world.
Herbert Roger Lottman was an American author who specialized in writing biographies on French subjects. An influential biographer, he published 17 biographies, 15 of which were related to French culture, commerce, or politics; including works on Albert Camus, Colette, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Philippe Pétain, Jules Verne, and the Rothschild banking family of France. He wrote that, just before dying, Albert Camus was pledged to marry. Camus's estate tried to block his book, partly because of this controversial statement.
