FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Translations:
Gustave Flaubert
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F. P. Greve's Flaubert Translations: | |||
 Greve Portrait, 1902©gd June 2005 |
| Author: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Title: Reiseblätter: Briefe aus dem Orient. Über Feld und Strand / Gustave Flaubert ; zusammengestellt von F. P. Greve ; ins Deutsche übertragen von E. Greve. Published: Minden i. Westf. : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, ca. 1907 [pref., Oct. 1905]. Description: v, 292 p. ; 19 cm. -- Series: Gustave Flauberts Gesammelte Werke ; Bd. 8 "Autorisierte Ausgabe." Contents: Briefe aus dem Orient (p.1-177). -- Über Feld und Strand: eine Reise in der Bretagne (p.181-292). Local Note: Translated by Felix Paul Greve, later Frederick Philip Grove, for Bruns publishers, Minden, [Oct. 1905]. Bound in blue linnen, with gold lettering. -- Edition statement reads: "Erste deutsche, von den Rechtsnachfolgern Flauberts autorisierte Gesamt-Ausgabe, herausgegeben von Dr. E. W. Fischer." -- The Preface by Greve explains the genesis of "Par les champs et par les grèves" in 1847: Flaubert wrote the uneven, his friend Maxime Du Champ the even numbered chapters. A fragment of this text appeared in 1858 in "Artiste" (Greve renders its title as "Die Steine von Carnac"). -- Greve's pref. is signed "Paris-Plage, Oktober 1905, F.P.G." -- The alleged translator "E. Greve" is, of course, Else Ploetz, divorced Endell, who became later known as the New York Dada artist Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven. -- She had been Greve's lover since late 1902, and wasn't married to him before mid-1907. -- In October 1905, the pair had moved from their voluntary exile in Wollerau, Switzeland, to Paris-Plage on the French Channel Coast. Acquired from D. O. Spettigue, Summer, 1994. -- Subjects: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Correspondence. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Travel -- Orient. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 Travel -- Bretagne. Other Author(s): Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Par les champs et par les greves. German. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Works. Fischer, Erhard Wolfgang. Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1948. Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948. Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927. Holdings: RBR PT 2613 R794 XFlRe 1905 |
