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Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert
Author(s): Henry Michael Gott (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848934378
- ISBN-13: 9781848934375
Book Description
Gott examines Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874). He provides a highly original reading of both texts and argues that a stylistic affinity exists between the two works.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Gott argues persuasively for a kinship of sensibility between Gustave Flaubert and T S Eliot. He locates the shared presence in their writings of what he calls “ascetic modernism”. The perfectionist novelist and the poet agonized by redemptive possibilities meet and blend in these pages; the result is a book that is fascinating and original.’ Michael O’Neill, Durham University
About the Author
Henry Michael Gott
