As far as the review goes, I'm always disappointed at how many of these pieces struggle to get past the cliche of Flaubert as shut-in, ignoring his North African sexfest and only skating over his endlessly dazzling intellectual chatter.
For anyone able to read French, Rouen University has a magnificent repository of the letters, many with scans. https://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/correspondance/correspondance...
i love Jack Kerouac’s “Windblown World” (an awesome collection of his journals / letters / notes on writing) & would highly recommend if you’re a fan
haven’t really explored Flaubert & am curious about where’d be a good place to start
i <33 stephen mitchel’s tao te ching [1] & ever since have much appreciated a great translation pro tip
[1] https://ia800904.us.archive.org/20/items/taoteching-Stephen-...
Another is Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence from 1993, which is a selection of letters between Flaubert and George Sand.
If you can read french, the Rouen collection is probably the most complete, but there are other french collections. If you're just looking to start with Flaubert in general you can start with Mme. Bovary, rightly regarded as one of the best novels ever. Flaubert's control over his sentences, the breathtaking style, is incredible to read.
will probs check out mme bovary tn if i can get a pdf
Original French: https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/details.php?book=340