Flaubert's Letters

Flaubert in egypt is a compilation from letters and journals of flaubert's trip to the middle east with his friend maxime ducan. Steegmuller called the book a sensibility on tour. Everything noisily overlapped, the exotic and the every day,. The mic and the grotesque, the dream and the dismaying reality. It was these omnivorous contradictions that struck me as so modern. Flaubert would scorn to think of us reading his correspondence. He believed unwaveringly that only the mattered. But how can the letters not be read, given that they have survived? They too are a riotous kaleidoscope of genre, unf