In his epistolary, Flaubert - perhaps like no other great writer -
carried out a deep reflection on the conditions
same of the writing, about the questions about
what is a novel, the place of the writer in the market, the tension
between thought and literature, the ideal reader, the search
of the right phrase. With that critical gesture, Flaubert founds a
tradition that will lead to the avant-garde and the most
Acute literary theory of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Theoretical correspondence. Letters about literary problems
gathers more than 40 epistolary pieces directed, among others, to
Charles Baudelaire, George Sand, Louise Colet and Iván Turguénev.