| 单词 | Flaubert |
| 例句 | I’m not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can’t be satisfied. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She goes back to the Xerox room to copy her syllabus and a short passage from Flaubert to translate in class. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just told you. I just got through saying. This guy Brughman is a big Flaubert man. Or at least I thought he was.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And even though I was urged to read all that I could, several teachers were dismayed to learn that I had read the novels of Victor Hugo and Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My freshman literature teacher only smiled when I mentioned the grammar school incident concerning Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc Gustave Flaubert reportedly once said that he wrote his novels to resemble a particular color. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z Unlike Flaubert, Chopin declines to explicitly condemn her heroine. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Several essays here complicate easy appeals to "resistance" in art, or its capacity to be "activist", with persuasive readings of Sartre's critique of Flaubert, or the films Dogville and Mystic River. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z Individual genius is a group accomplishment, and don’t let Flaubert tell you different. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z This being a French movie, the Flaubert connection lends “Gemma Bovery” an amusing if pretentious intellectual gloss. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “The myth that Flaubert was a backward child is convincingly demolished,” Heather Ingman wrote in The Guardian. Herbert Lottman, Biographer of French Figures, Dies at 87 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Gemma plays an English woman recently moved to a Normandy village on the trail of Flaubert. Trailer Trash 2013-06-01T23:05:53Z Those seeking more entertainment can head over to the park’s Carrousel at 1 p.m. for Le Carrousel Kids, a storytelling session with Flaubert & Friends. Spare Times: For Children, for July 6-12 2012-07-05T21:19:52Z He was not supposed to go to Brown University for his master’s degree and write a thesis on the influence of black women in Baudelaire and Flaubert and in the paintings of Delacroix. André Leon Talley’s Next Act 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Her admiration of Flaubert and Ibsen shows how she was well connected to the artistic movements of the time. Eleanor Marx led a revolutionary life with a tragic ending 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z A youth spent with Dostoyevsky, Flaubert and Tolstoy “doesn’t necessarily make you a comedian,” she said. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z In addition to translating Proust and Flaubert, she has tackled a biography of Marie Curie, art catalogs, travel essays, histories of China and more. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The references to Flaubert, Dante and the Beckett homage aroused Henry's curiosity; these were the kind of literary allusions critics took seriously. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z Having been put off Flaubert by "L'Education Sentimentale", I was expecting not to like it but this book was a revelation once I got round to reading it. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Flaubert complains to George Sand that, according to a critic, “I pollute a stream by washing in it.” Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Some of my favorites are Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Flaubert’s “Salammbô,” James’s “The Golden Bowl” and Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.” Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness,” Flaubert wrote, “though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.” Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z In a 1852 letter, French author Gustave Flaubert mused, "When will we write the facts from the point of view of a cosmic joke, that is as God sees them from on high?" We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In Flaubert's Madame Bovary, the heroine, bored by her new husband, glimpses a more exciting life at the ball given by the Marquis d'Andervilliers. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Not all namesakes are French — A is for Andersen, Hans Christian, for example, and S for Shakespeare, William — but Flaubert, Hugo, Proust and Zola are among the scribes whose text is stenciled above the beds. | Check In, Check Out: A Room With a View (of Art) for the Night 2010-10-07T02:12:00Z In one of the most painful episodes in Flaubert's novel, Homais, the creepy local chemist, encourages Bovary to attempt a revolutionary new surgical procedure to cure the clubfoot of a servant. Ten of the best bad doctors in literature 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z After much hesitation — “Baudelaire or Strindberg? Flaubert or Dostoyevsky?” — he finally settles on just two, the Bible and “The Communist Manifesto.” His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It is splendid to be a great writer," said Flaubert, "to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z A Frenchman with a head like Flaubert seemed amused in a multitude of plaid. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z I love Normandy, only two hours from Paris — a land of great authors, such as Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Flaubert illuminated her inner life and outward circumstances with a clarity that set a new standard for the novel, one that continues to beguile, and often to frustrate, his followers. Review: ‘Madame Bovary’ Features Mia Wasikowska as a Notorious Adulteress 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray." “Red, White & Royal Blue”: Here's what Henry's and Alex's taste in books say about their characters 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z She married Francis Steegmuller, a Flaubert scholar, in 1963, and spent much of her life in Italy, eventually living part-time in New York and part-time in Naples and on the island of Capri. Shirley Hazzard in The New Yorker 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It is also possible to visit the Flaubert Pavilion, a small country house in Canteleu, about 15 minutes outside Rouen, where Flaubert lived and wrote for 35 years. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z And there's a letter of rage from Flaubert about this, and of course they didn't do his book the next Christmas either. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z I had surrendered myself to the large, general world of fiction, and at the time I’m speaking of loved certain writers extravagantly: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Mann, Kafka and Proust most of all. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z For Flaubert, that closed loop was literary, sexual, and spiritual. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Ms. Davis is also a highly regarded translator of Proust and Flaubert. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z Chabrol directed many kinds of films — breezy action-adventures, solemn adaptations of Flaubert and Simenon, true-life stories of notorious French citizens — but he was most celebrated for domestic dramas that end in murder. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z He finds notions such as cultural appropriation, he said, “oppressive” — “Flaubert created a Madame Bovary even though he wasn’t a woman” — and prefers to think of literature as “freedom.” He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z France Flaubert Salammbô OldCreoleBonVivant Flaubert uses this story of internal strife in Carthage after the defeat of the first Punic war as an exercise in sensuous exoticism and literary decadence. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z To perform this function, he relies on Flaubert’s correspondence with fellow-novelist George Sand, on archival photos of 1870s Paris and on his estimable gifts of rapportage. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z By taking a subject so remote in time and manners, Flaubert gave himself license to stretch and indulge the exacting descriptive talent which he deployed so scrupulously in "Madame Bovary". World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z “Our Town,” Flaubert and Dylan Thomas quickly blow their minds, and the ditsy book club discussions are a riot. Review | Elaine May’s porn star play leads a pack of escapist comedies 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z When Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary, it was presumed that the audience was female, and that this female audience had more delicate and impressionable sensibilities. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z “Young Billy made his first visit to our office today. He’s juggling. He’s translating Flaubert from French into English,” jokes the star. Jimmy Kimmel Opens Up About His Son's Health and Heart Surgery 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The villa’s 25 acres of parks, gardens, fortifications, sculptures, and hiking trails offer prime examples of Italian Renaissance landscapes, and luminaries like Gustave Flaubert and Edith Wharton found inspiration here. Tour Lake Como’s Magnificent Villa d’Este with Lee F. Mindel 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z One could argue that in “The Only Story,” Barnes’s new book, he is taking his cue from Flaubert, as he did in his best-known work, “Flaubert’s Parrot.” He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Sebastian Faulks has muddled me up with Flaubert, who is quoted in the epigraph of his book and whom I was paraphrasing. Author, author: Michael Holroyd 2011-02-26T00:07:53Z Both these novels were steeped in his admiration for and literary techniques of Sartre, Flaubert and Faulkner. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z To write “Madame Bovary,” Flaubert had to abandon the “recklessness” of his early, lyrical work. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “In training to write, I was drawn to Hemingway, Dos Passos, Flaubert, Tolstoy and the Bible,” he said. Atticus Lish Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z There is a beautiful account here of how she wrote certain stories based on Flaubert’s letters to his lover, the writer Louise Colet. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Throw in Chekhov and Flaubert, and Bascomb's list could be Cheever's. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z It contained a Flaubert short story about a man who slaughtered thousands of wild animals but found redemption after he showed remorse for killing his parents, and the opening scene of a play. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z The first worries about "the future" surfaced as the era of Austen, Stendhal and Flaubert drew to a close. İnci Aral: The future of the novel 2013-02-28T14:00:02Z Or do the calm rhythms of life lived close to nature allow those who summer here, as Flaubert said of orderly routines, “to be violent and original” in their work? Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Eliot, Gustave Flaubert and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, their apartment felt like a secular shrine to Tudor England, with shelves of books on Cromwell and his contemporaries, and titles about medieval fashion, food and metallurgy. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z He agrees with Flaubert’s comment that “A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, as a man becomes an informant when he cannot be a soldier.” Birdman at Venice: Can an Ex-Superhero Still Fly? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Even a book such as Flaubert’s oft-banned “Madame Bovary”—in which the most obvious moral seems to be that curious women deserve unhappiness—raises important questions about women, desire, and freedom. What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z While his treatment of location shows him more of a Romantic than the French writer, Meredith brings something of Flaubert's surgical precision to his dissection of the psychologically complex "marriage-knot" entangling the couple. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z He was, in other words, the embodiment of Flaubert’s famous dictum that artists should live in an orderly fashion and reserve their wildness for their work. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Afterward, Flaubert toured the city ruins with his friend Maxime du Camp, to whom he lamented that if only his countrymen had read “Sentimental Education,” the Terrible Year might have been averted. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Another recommended read is Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, which I read three years earlier. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z One of the essays deals with the trials against Flaubert and Baudelaire, both in 1857. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z Flaubert wished to be buried with his inkwell. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z "The morals of provincial life," Flaubert might mutter. The mysterious genesis of books 2011-03-24T11:42:57Z Early on, Mr. Díaz said he envied writers of earlier centuries, like Tolstoy and Flaubert, because for them divorce was a far more dramatic plot point. ArtsBeat: Friends Remember David Foster Wallace at New Yorker Festival 2012-10-08T20:56:32Z The revolutions of 1848 in Flaubert’s novel become in Barnes’s work the multiple revolutions of the 1960s, not least the sexual revolution. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Resist “the heavy influences” — Flaubert, Marx, etc., or what Bellow, citing Thoreau, calls “the savage strength of the many.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “And as they exhumed their youth,” Flaubert writes, “at every sentence they kept saying: ‘Do you remember?’ ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z By bringing “style” into it, Brooks nods to Flaubert’s reputation as a compulsive tweaker, someone who could spend all day reworking a paragraph. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Its title is a riff on Flaubert’s masterpiece about the social education of a young bourgeois man. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Flaubert was, in fact, an outspoken fan of sex for money, and his novel criticized the society that destroyed Emma Bovary, not the woman herself. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z In Chee’s telling, the writer’s life always lurks just beyond the page, and not only in the way that Gustave Flaubert was Madame Bovary or Henry James the prepubescent heroine of “What Maisie Knew.” Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z His first two novels won him early praise for compressing the psychological realism of Flaubert and James into delicately structured stream-of-consciousness miniatures. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z He argues that the deflationary tendency so marked in “Sentimental Education” proceeded from Flaubert’s scorn for most political movements and the chronic delusions that enable them. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Bergé, now 85, focused on volumes annotated and inscribed by authors and original owners including Flaubert, Stendhal, Apollinaire and the Marquis de Sade. Documenting the Romantic Strokes of Long-Ago Muralists 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z At an antique bookseller’s table, we spotted some Gustave Flaubert, the art of French living, religious texts, the history of boules. Three Californians, 1,500 miles, one rented VW: A long and winding road trip through central France 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z René Magritte embodied Flaubert’s dictum that artists should be orderly in life and wild in their work. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z So look again, because this is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust. My hero: Lydia Davis by Ali Smith 2013-05-24T15:00:03Z A new novel from the author of “The Sense of an Ending” and “Flaubert’s Parrot” centers on a charismatic, if enigmatic, professor and her lifelong impact on a former student. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Especially now, when our political rhetoric is so overheated — not to say overblown — readers can find sanctuary in Flaubert’s oblique humor, his deadpan narration. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The self’s instability wasn’t unfamiliar even to the character-happy 19th century novelists: “Self-possession depends on its environment. We don’t speak on the first floor as on the fourth,” Flaubert observed in “Madame Bovary.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z While Turkey can be proud of its literary traditions – especially poetry heavily influenced by Persian verse forms – it is nevertheless a nation without its own Tolstoy, Flaubert or Austen. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “Tell them you’ll get tuberculosis in a garret, if you have to; it’s what Flaubert did.” Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z Flaubert observed of this opera that “God’s three most beautiful creations are the sea, ‘Hamlet’ and Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni.’ Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The ultimate punchline of Flaubert's cosmic joke is that the narrator himself is a master of subtle confusion. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In “Bar Boy,” the show’s second great green painting, he’s a newbie, stepping into a bar alone, like the erstwhile provincial Frédéric Moreau, of Flaubert’s famous novel “Sentimental Education.” Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z One good place to study that "swarm-like life", and to see religious belief seriously represented and seriously examined, is the modern novel – from, say, Melville and Flaubert in the 1850s to the present day. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z France Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education lcoats This novel glitters with Flaubert's numinous narrative ease - here the depth, there the irony, nuanced insight one moment, unabashed moral observation the next. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It alights on Flaubert and Beethoven as well as on the knotty contradictions of grief. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z "This mutable woman," wrote Woolf, "all instinct, sympathy and sensation, is as painstaking a student and as careful of the dignity of her art as Flaubert himself." Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z Though she did not invent it — arguably Austen, Flaubert and Edith Wharton got there first — Woolf perfected this mode, coloring it with the anxiety of modern subjectivity. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z “The idea of Flaubert holed up writing his sentences is not part of our culture any more,” she said. With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z To Flaubert, “bad style, especially the remnants of Romantic illusionism, is lying, and therefore to be censured,” Brooks explains. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z While it’s true that he viewed his calling as monastic in its solitude and scholarly devotion, “Flaubert was too much the historian to stand aside from the world,” Brooks claims. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Flaubert created his Emma, Tolstoy made his Anna, and now we have Grossman's Ora – as fully alive, as fully embodied, as any character in recent fiction. 'The most gifted writer I've ever read': outblurb the Grossman fans 2010-07-06T09:25:00Z All of this leads Pamuk into some interesting re-evaluations of Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Dickens as he explores the oscillations between "naive" and "sentimental" and the search for an equilibrium between these two poles. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z Accompanying the Flaubert story are some pages from a play by the letter writer himself, along with a request for Henry’s help. Books of The Times: Yann Martel?s ?Beatrice and Virgil,? a Holocaust Allegory 2010-04-12T21:20:00Z “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to,” Flaubert wrote in “Madame Bovary,” “while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z Davis agonized over how much detail to alter, whether to keep an occasional “etc.,” and how much breathable white space to dilate Flaubert’s dense paragraphs with. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z They were not ordinary classroom discussions – Joyce, Proust, Conrad, Flaubert, Tolstoy: whatever he felt like teaching. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Flaubert’s “struggle with his prose” involved “hours of dull agony upon the couch for every racking adventure with the sentence.” Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In “Flaubert’s Parrot,” Barnes’s narrator draws a distinction between two kinds of people in relationships: “Those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love, I maintain.” Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z I also love Henry James and Gustave Flaubert, who wrote the first feminist novel in “Madame Bovary.” Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But the telling — or Flaubert’s telling — must studiously avoid falsehood, which can be betrayed in high-mindedness or sloppy diction. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z When Flaubert came to write “Sentimental Education,” he was looking back on a failed revolution. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Lately, however, Tolstoy and Flaubert have had stiff competition on the self-harm front, thanks to women novelists intent on exploring their female characters’ propensity to act out their unhappiness on their bodies. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z The epigraph is from Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart.” A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In the following decade, Flaubert predicted that this vast "anthill" of a city would become "the capital of the world". Istanbul, ed by Heather Reyes – review 2013-05-03T18:00:01Z I had assumed, ignorantly, that I didn’t have to read him, such was Zola’s reputation as an artist inferior to Flaubert and Maupassant. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z One young attendee offered a reading from Gustave Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education.” New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z Only in the sense that Flaubert means when he famously says, “Madam Bovary, she is myself.” This Week in Fiction: Lore Segal 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z The antidote, Flaubert believed, is to understand human motives through what he called “science” — essentially the social sciences — and through “novels of the analytic exactitude sought by Flaubert.” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He's often compared stylistically to Flaubert, the greatest French novelist of the 19th century, and the comparison is fully merited. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z In Dickey’s telling, what Saint Anthony’s fire, Flaubert’s writer’s block, and the realist novel have in common is a masturbatory economy: a resistance to productive labor that is at once pleasurable and agonizing. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Spuck, 54, is the brand-new artistic director of the Staatsballett, Germany’s largest — and currently most beleaguered — ballet company, and the dancers were rehearsing a scene from his full-length ballet “Bovary,” based on the Flaubert novel. To Restore Order, a Troubled Dance Company Calls on a Storyteller 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Flaubert possibly would not have written Madame Bovary had an Egyptian journey not refreshed his eye for the narrow minds of provincial France. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z Flaubert said: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Talking with Jill Bialosky about writing, editing and her new novel, 'The Prize' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z A British beauty and her husband move to a charming old farmhouse in France, where her life begins to parallel Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And though he’s adamant that writers should no longer write in the manner of Flaubert, he’s silent about whether it’s still worth reading Flaubert at all, and why or why not. Books Of the Times: ‘How Literature Saved My Life,’ by David Shields 2013-02-03T20:49:32Z He also introduced the writings of his great friend Gustave Flaubert to the Russian reading public, even translating “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” into Russian. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z And I bet that in their different ways, Flaubert with his incessant industry and Evans with his urge for leisure both found themselves puttering about. T Magazine: The Gift of Time 2010-12-04T16:30:00Z Evans, who considered himself a man of literature, insisted that he was most influenced not by other photographers but by writers — like Flaubert. T Magazine: The Gift of Time 2010-12-04T16:30:00Z Henry James, an avowed fan of Flaubert, nevertheless called Frederic “an abject human specimen” and wrote that the reader is bound to ask: “Why, why him?” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z France Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Mart Le Blanc This most perfectly balanced of novels, scandalous for its time, is packed with wonderfully detailed descriptions. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z I felt we had entered an orientalist’s paradise: the world of classic Egyptian cinema and Flaubert’s Cairo. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Don’t expect “Gemma Bovery,” Anne Fontaine’s contemporary riff on Flaubert, to shed any new light on that author’s most famous character. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Meredith's narration here is not, of course, on a par with Flaubert's superbly unsparing treatment of the death of Madame Bovary. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z The show makes its Eros-Thanatos connections as if cribbing from both Flaubert and “General Hospital.” | 'Pretty Little Liars': A New ABC Family Series From Sara Shepard?s Books 2010-06-07T21:44:00Z Flaubert and Balzac are the twin godfathers of this powerful novella. The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky – review 2013-07-12T14:59:00Z Flaubert may be “except for Proust … the true artist of the novel,” but Bloom is more interested in Emma Bovary herself than in her novel. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Flaubert stated that he wanted to write the moral history of his generation, to excavate passions that he declared were, despite the romantic pretenses of French society, “inactive.” He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Only when it comes to the truly great writers – Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy, Flaubert – does TV fail, producing pale shadows of the original works. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z The idea, of course, was not just to survive on ham and cheese and baguettes and sit around cafes reading Le Monde by day and Flaubert by night. Frugal Traveler: L'Addition: How $100 Lasted a Weekend in Paris 2011-02-15T19:25:03Z The fruit of this long labour was "Boule de Suif", which Flaubert lived just long enough to read and proclaim a masterpiece. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Some wore their infection almost as a badge of pride: The Earl of Rochester, Casanova, Flaubert in his letters. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z France's political upheaval, misinformation wars, sporadic uprisings and public confusion likely left a deep impression on Flaubert. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z This week’s installment offers a Fourth of July celebration with the characters Flaubert Frog and Cali Co Cat. Spare Times: For Children, for July 6-12 2012-07-05T21:19:52Z At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s the story of one of the first modern divorce cases in Britain, and like “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,” it resonates with the literature of its time, specifically Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z This is a refined realism of the sort Flaubert himself championed, storytelling that accrues detail by lean detail. A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Gustav Flaubert wrote in a letter to Turgenev, responding to the love object in the novella. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The novelist Flaubert hated the rituals of bourgeois life. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z A handful of authors have similarly defined the periods in which they lived — Dickens, Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert — creators of unforgettable characters and the very air they seem to breathe. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Ruhorahoza, 28, spoke recently to Arts Beat about the inspiration for the movie and its title, how Flaubert and Norman Mailer triggered his interest in storytelling, and why he chose filmmaking over practicing law. ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker?s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca 2011-04-20T12:08:33Z Certainly, Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education,” the classic novel of romantic and political disillusion that I first read or failed to read in my teens, begins to make sense only as you cross over into middle age. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In Madame Bovary, another French novelist, Gustave Flaubert, wrote of a rural doctor’s young wife whose desire for consumer goods and urban pleasures leads to her ruin. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z She was visited in her dressing room by Gustave Flaubert, while Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses, and Sarah Bernhardt.” Paris exhibit celebrates ‘first celebrity’ Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z “Sue me for not being Flaubert,” he told People magazine. John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, dies at 90 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z No, Gustave Flaubert isn’t putting the final touches on the prose. Inside Center Theatre Group's slow and systematic search for its next leader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z As savage as Swift or Céline, somewhat reminiscent of Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Received Ideas,” these blistering pages indict a bourgeois culture of selfishness and mediocrity. Review | Finding wisdom in Charles Baudelaire’s mad scribblings 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The 19th-century French writer Gustave Flaubert once took five days, working 12 hours a day, to write one page. What Does It Really Mean to Make Art? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Flaubert created the stereotype of an “oriental woman” as sensual, submissive, the object of white male desire and dominance. The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Benjamin litters the novel with heaps of literary allusions and references: Austen, Beckett, Proust, Gogol, Eliot, Rand, Melville, Shakespeare, Stein, Frost, Nabokov, Updike, Wallace, Flaubert — this is a partial list. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Flaubert would have recoiled at the business school jargon, but the work was deemed necessary as the institution navigates through some dangerous crosscurrents. Inside Center Theatre Group's slow and systematic search for its next leader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant. David Hockney in lockdown: How the artist found his perpetual spring in a horrible year 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In forcing Flaubert and Genet through the sausage machine of existentialism he performs the astonishing feat of making you want to avoid reading them. Top 10 books about great thinkers 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Wilde wrote Salome in French, intoxicated by the writings of Flaubert, Huysmans and Baudelaire. Too filthy to print – Aubrey Beardsley and his explosions of obscenity 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z His haul included a copy of “Madame Bovary” dedicated by Flaubert to Victor Hugo. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It made me think of a short story that made an impression on me many years ago, “The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller,” by Flaubert. Into the Black Forest With the Greatest Living Artist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Among a list of top priority pages that includes James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, George Orwell, and Marcel Proust, there wasn’t a single page devoted to a woman. The sum of what? On gender, visibility, and Wikipedia 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Of course Flaubert shocked the guardians of moral propriety by having his not-so–bright heroine – whose has married a third-tier provincial doctor – starting an affair with a military man in town on secondment. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “They just took Flaubert’s Parrot on board. They were so much more welcoming than if some unheard-of French novelist had written an upside-down, semi-fictional book about Dickens.” Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Between 2009 and 2014, according to French media reports, he sold Aristophil more than €90 million worth of rare documents, including letters from Jean Cocteau and the manuscript of a Flaubert novella. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The choice of Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine who is passionate and bored with the banality of provincial life but trapped in a mediocre marriage, was not, Besson thinks, an accident. Philippe Besson: ‘I told Macron he had zero chance of becoming president’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Her parents encouraged her early interest in literature, which encompassed Austen, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Toni Morrison obituary 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Flaubert not only invented the so-called “desperate housewife” genre, but also spoke a truth that few then or now want to recognise: stepping out from the bonds of fidelity is often a response to boredom. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “If I had 6p or a euro since Flaubert’s Parrot for every time someone suggested Pushkin’s Button or Tolstoy’s Gerbil … ” Barnes smiles patiently. Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Stoner and Katherine, lost in their infatuation, begin collecting other examples of bogus “given opinion,” along the lines of Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Received Ideas.” John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z She ended by citing Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as an example of the power of the reprobate imagination. 'Identity is a pain in the arse': Zadie Smith on political correctness 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “So it is with all our dreams,” noted Flaubert. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Attending a small liberal-arts college in Buffalo, she was introduced to Flaubert and Flannery O’Connor and decided that she wanted to become an English professor. Conservative Evangelicals Attempt to Disentangle Their Faith from Trumpism 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale, a popular personality indicator from 1935 that sorted people into five different types, drew on the novels of Dostoyevsky and Flaubert. Perspective | Five myths about personality tests 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Flaubert, writing a century earlier, had been looking for an alternative to Romanticism, a tendency he defined as broadly as Yvor Winters later did. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It will be followed a few months later by an auction of books and manuscripts from Bergé’s celebrated library, including first editions of Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson and Oscar Wilde. Yves Saint Laurent co-founder’s rare art and artefacts to go on sale 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Flaubert wrote this story for his old friend and “fellow troubadour” George Sand. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z He engaged no less seriously with literary history – James, Flaubert, Kafka, Gogol, Chekhov, Bellow, Malamud, Singer – all the while spinning out existential, psychological, philosophical, linguistic and narrative puzzles. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Bellow was an early influence, as were Thomas Wolfe, Flaubert, Henry James and Kafka, whose picture Roth hung in his writing room. Prolific, provocative author Philip Roth, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Later writers, notably Flaubert, kept the work of 17th century Arabists alive deep into the 1800s. How European scholars first encountered the Arab world 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z We commune with its spirit through literature and art, in the works of Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hardy, Kafka, Rosa Bonheur, George Stubbs and Edgar Degas. Review | How the horse helped shape our world — at great expense to itself 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z As Flaubert put it, to be local is to be universal. Julian Barnes on suburbia: ‘I have no sense of a great Tufnell Park novel inside me' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z She had been one of those teachers that students love, to the point of hanging around after class to talk about Stendhal or Flaubert. Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The author was absent from his service – as his admired Gustave Flaubert said that the artist should be absent from his work. ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z As Flaubert pragmatically once observed, 'Everything must be learned, from reading to dying' ‘Words are the best weapons with which to come to terms with ageing’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z In recovery, at the suggestion of his psychiatrist, Lowell began to write prose autobiography, in a style, discovered in Flaubert, marked by “images and ironic or amusing particulars.” The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z But to the outside world China has tried to promote Xi as a more international figure; an urbane, globe-trotting statesman whose shelves are packed with the works of Chekhov, Flaubert, Shelley and La Fontaine. How Xi Jinping's global ambitions could thrive as Trump turns inward 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Celebrated for his first and most famous published work, Madame Bovary, which took five years to write, Flaubert was meticulous about the style and elegance of his work. Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert's travel diary among rare books at historic sale 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Better still, Mencken was introducing the young writer to a new world: Spinoza, Gustave Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot, and many more. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z It may be a hard lesson but, as Flaubert pragmatically once observed, “Everything must be learned, from reading to dying”. ‘Words are the best weapons with which to come to terms with ageing’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The novel’s anti-romanticism is insistent and biting, as Flaubert demolishes the tired cliches in which such affairs are conducted. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He also wrote poetry and was given to quoting the ancient Greeks and Flaubert and Churchill. Shimon Peres Dies at 93; Built Up Israel’s Defense and Sought Peace 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Gustave Flaubert Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. Why we read: authors and readers on the power of literature 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In that sense, he makes me think of writers like Balzac or Flaubert or Alexandre Dumas, who had, seemingly, more ideas than they could write and were very generous about it. Matz and David Fincher's 'The Black Dahlia' adaptation to be released in English 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse's spring season kicks off with The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! in which Gustave Flaubert's novel is "lovingly derailed" by theatre company Peepolykus. Theatre in 2016 is all about William and Harry - BBC News 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Emma is undoubtedly loved, but Flaubert’s point is that she nevertheless remains unhappy. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In Russia, Xi boasted of having read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Gogol; in France, he reached for Flaubert, Stendhal and Molière. Publishers under pressure as China's censors reach for red pen 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Moore is fond of quoting Flaubert’s dictum “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Julianne Moore, Beauty and a Beast 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Sitting with us in their sparse one-room office, Flaubert and his colleagues grew angry talking about the Red Cross. The Red Cross’ Haiti disgrace: Half a billion dollars spent, six homes built 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z These are, at best, unchallenging, and would have drawn barks of laughter from the derisive Flaubert. Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet Flaubert’s early disapproval of his heroine’s self-absorption, “icy charm” and vanity is curiously transformed, in the last 100 pages or so, by a softening towards, even forgiveness of, her tawdry and narcissistic escapism. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z His art shares the dirty realism of the novelists Flaubert and Zola. Sorry, Facebook, but the finest art is always about sex and death | Jonathan Jones 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z In his 50s, he decided to learn French and in short order was reading Flaubert in the original language. Lessons on How to Succeed in Business from Dear Old Dad 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z French authors routinely appear in the English-speaking world's lists of the best novels ever - Voltaire, Flaubert, and Proust… sometimes Dumas and Hugo too. Why don't French books sell abroad? 2013-12-09T00:03:03Z There is little shame, and less surprise, in the fact that filmmakers have stumbled in their effort to bring the work of Flaubert to the screen. Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Her condition, Flaubert makes clear, is far from unique. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Gustave Flaubert discerned that there is not a particle of life, which does not bear poetry within it. Has political oratory gone for good? 2013-05-10T03:32:28Z She wrote poems and read Flaubert, Balzac and Zola because “literature goes with loneliness,” and when she got a bicycle, her bodyguards followed her on bicycles, too. The Saturday Profile: Mazarine Pingeot, Mitterrand Daughter, Looks Back 2012-12-01T01:00:42Z While remaining itself obscure," wrote George Moore of L'Education Sentimentale, by Flaubert, "this novel has given birth to a numerous literature. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z “Gemma Bovery” is an adaptation not of Flaubert but of a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, which toys with an unlikely resurrection of the story in the modern age. Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Flaubert himself professed a desire to write a novel “about nothing”. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Monday he was free, and it was on that day occurred the famous Magny dinners, when Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, the Goncourts, and a few other chosen spirits, met and talked as only Frenchmen can talk. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z No more as lovers, but as profound admirers of her intellect, great men still flocked about her—Matthew Arnold, Flaubert, Feuillet, and a host of others. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Balzac is on the road selling knit-goods, and a mighty good drummer he is sure to be; but poor Flaubert has had hard luck. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Just once, for a few delirious pages, Flaubert got what he deserved. ♦ Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Then, when all your work is done, read what has been written with the microscopic eyes of a Flaubert. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z A great French critic, recently dead, who devoted perhaps the major part of his life to the study of the �sthetics of the French tongue, declared that Flaubert and Chateaubriand wrote only poetry. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Almost at the same time Gustave Flaubert, in Madame Bovary, erected his monument of infamy to the memory of the bourgeois. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z He nearly burst a blood-vessel when they gave him a Marie Corelli manuscript to correct—to correct the style, mind you, he, Flaubert! Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He made the valued acquaintance of Ivan Turgenev, and through him of the group which surrounded Gustave Flaubert—Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Zola and others. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z And even in France, where we have been taught to look for sound critics, Flaubert thought as late as 1869 that criticism was still in its infancy. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Flaubert remarked that the assemblage of all the old religions in Syria was something incredible; it was enough to study for centuries.* The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z To understand Gauguin one must share to some extent the opinion of Flaubert—which, incidentally, Browning almost endorses—that the man is nothing, the work is all. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z He glowered at the name of Flaubert, rejoicing in the sad existence of the mighty prose master, but he smiled superciliously when I reproached him with not knowing Chopin. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z I had also the other day a very pleasant call upon Flaubert, whom I like personally more and more each time I see him. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z He frequently reminds us that he is a Slav who learned French along with his native tongue, that he has read Flaubert and Maupassant and Henry James. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z And the old Orient, as Flaubert said, is the land of religions; and where Asia looks upon Europe, and the communication between them began of yore, you may sample all the faiths of antiquity. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Imagine Turgenev or Flaubert scribbling anything similar to the interpolations quoted above! Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z "Believe that which thou seest not," cries Flaubert in his marvellous masque of mythologies ancient and modern, The Temptation of St. Anthony. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z I really believe myself the last survivor of those then surrounding Gustave Flaubert. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z No novelist of his generation has attained a higher literary rank than Flaubert. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Those who have read Flaubert's powerful and imaginative work will probably consider it somewhat unsuited for the purposes of a "lyrical drama." Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z A student of the classics, with Flaubert sitting on the lotus leaf of perfection before his eyes, it soon became the desire of his heart to meet some of the great ones of letters. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z He tells the truth about Flaubert, whose Sentimental Education is an entire Human Comedy. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Balzac and Flaubert were provincials, and Dumas was a city-dweller,—and there lies the difference between them. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Undoubtedly, however, the “Naturalist” tendency, starting from Balzac and continued through Flaubert, but taking quite a new direction under some of those to be mentioned, is in a manner dominant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z That’s as clear and convincing a dictum for an essential part of the novelist’s art as anything in Flaubert. Essay: Essay - A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench - By Matt Weiland 2011-08-26T22:51:34Z On his knees before the spirit of Flaubert, he pruned and polished his work. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z He once dared to couple the name of the "odious" George Eliot with Flaubert's. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He loved literature passionately, and to talk of writers and to praise Maupassant, Flaubert, or Tolstoy was a great joy to him. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Balzac, or Flaubert, or that most terrible writer of the modern French school of fiction, the author of 'Le Sabot Rouge,' never described peasant life with more downright veracity. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Since Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, Ms. Banon has been living at friends’ apartments in Paris, with just a red suitcase and her dog Flaubert, a Weimaraner. The Saturday Profile: A Writer Frees Herself by Speaking Out 2011-07-23T00:07:33Z In a certain sense, he was of the school of Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, Loti, and Zola, but with such differences and variations that these teachers may not take much credit or flattery to themselves. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Like Flaubert, a neurotic, his digestive organs in a dyspeptic condition, Huysmans pursued the disagreeable with the ardour of a sportsman tracking game. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Apropos of this I recall that on that morning Gustave Flaubert left his card with the servant, without even asking for me. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z We have already mentioned Flaubert's suffering as a consequence of realistic absorption in "Madame Bovary's" poisoning by arsenic when he was writing that scene in the book. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z By now president of the literary section of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, he was lauded at his 60th-birthday festivities by both his brother and Gottfried Benn, who hailed him as “Flaubert’s heir.” Escaping Hitler, Cracking Up in L.A. 2011-06-17T21:53:40Z Flaubert's choice of subjects, as regards his essential character, was of the most extreme illogicality; his cadenced phrase and meticulous technique were also not the product of his character or of his freedom. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z He admired, as well he might, Flaubert, but found his company intolerable. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We are told that St. Paul, Mahomet, Handel, Napoleon, Flaubert, Dostoiëvsky were epileptoids; yet we do not encounter men of this rare kind among the inmates of asylums. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Mental States and the Stomach.—The typical example of the influence of the mind on the digestive tract is to be found in the experiences of Flaubert, the French novelist, while writing "Madame Bovary." Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z You'd better go back to Lincoln and study Science, history, philosophy, And read Flaubert's Madam something-or-other, And quit this village religious stuff. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z "Have you ever experienced the historic shudder?" asked Flaubert. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z No doubt Chopin did improvise freely, did come easily by his melodies, but the travail of a giant in patience—again you think of Flaubert—is shown in the polishing of his periods. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Work literally killed Poe, as it killed Jules de Goncourt, Flaubert and Daudet. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z "The stolid British intellect lies in the desert sands like the Sphinx in Flaubert's marvellous tale, and fantasy, La Chimère, dances round it and calls to it with her false flute-toned voice." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He took rooms in Paris, at 29 Rue de Luxembourg, and he penetrated easily into the very exclusive literary society which at that time revolved around Flaubert and Edmond de Goncourt. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z I have elsewhere set forth the reasons for my belief that the secret of Flaubert's life, character, and literary art consisted in an inability to think and write at the same time. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z In it George Moore sets forth his ideas concerning the Christ "myth," evoking, as does Flaubert in Salammbô, a vanished land, a vanished civilisation, and in a style that is artistically beautiful. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Baudelaire, like Flaubert, grasped the murky torch of pessimism once held by Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, and Senancour. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z He will discover where he stands with regard to Christianity, and where with regard to Flaubert. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z It was Turgenev who introduced him to Flaubert, from whom he passed to Guy de Maupassant, then an athlete of four-and-twenty, and still scintillating in that blaze of juvenile virility which always fascinated Henry James. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Thus, according to Flaubert, the myope looks at things one after another and describes details, while Hearn says the exact opposite. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z As old Flaubert used to say: such books are false, nature is not like that. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Minerva springing full-fledged from Jupiter's skull to the desk of the poet is a pretty fancy; but Balsac and Flaubert did not encourage this fancy. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Wilde wrote, with the pen of Flaubert, stories that might have been imagined by Andersen, and sometimes one and sometimes the other touches his hand. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He saw the living thread of literary history, running, a pulsating stream, from Rabelais to Flaubert. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z One might quote freely showing that his "filing of the line," like that of Flaubert, led to nothing, if the thought and feeling to be put into the lines were not there. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z That is, it must be overheard by the inner ear, which statement rather puts a damper on Flaubert's contention. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But, like Flaubert, on his return home Baudelaire was seized with the nostalgia of the East; over there he had yearned for Paris. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Still, Gautier and Flaubert have made it possible to attribute to that word a flavour of the South and the East, and these plays have Southern and Eastern settings that are harmonious with their contents. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Flaubert in his youth “was like a young Greek,” full of vigour of body and a certain shy grace, enthusiastic, intensely individual, and apparently without any species of ambition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z They were not there with his masters, Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, and others, and so these men will not inherit literary immortality. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z He refused to join the revolutionists; later in the case of Flaubert we come upon an analogous condition. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Like his friend Flaubert, he had a horror of democracy, of the democratisation of the arts, of all the sentimental fuss and fuddle of a pseudo-humanitarianism. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Flaubert's realistic novel Madame Bovary and Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise were not art for art's sake. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This estate, a house in a pleasant piece of ground which ran down to the Seine, became Flaubert’s home for the remainder of his life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The literary procedure of Flaubert threw everybody off the track and even some of the experts. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Like Flaubert he was stricken while at his desk. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He was like Flaubert, who saw everywhere the hidden skeleton. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z I might have given one of the great prose poems in Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra or a grand descriptive passage from Flaubert's novel Salammbo. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Flaubert’s correspondence with George Sand was published in 1884 with an introduction by Guy de Maupassant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z But there is one consequence, common both to Flaubert and to Hearn, a most strange unity of result flowing from a seemingly opposed but really identical cause in the two men. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z For Flaubert, who modelled his magnificent prose harmonies on the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Bossuet, and Châteaubriand, the final test of noble prose is the audible reading thereof. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He had expected, like Flaubert, to emerge from the trial with flying colours; therefore to be classed as one who wrote objectionable literature was a shock. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z There was hostility to the poetry in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, because the public did not want to accept their artistic innovations, their frankness and their views. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His father, of whom many traits are reproduced in Flaubert’s character of Charles Bovary, was a surgeon in practice at Rouen; his mother was connected with some of the oldest Norman families. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Opium, with the impossibility of writing and creating at the same time, dominated Flaubert's work and working, and the similar result was begot by Hearn's enormous monocular myopia. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z It is the fault—or virtue—of all subjective genius; however, not a fault or virtue of Flaubert or Turgenev or Tolstoy. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Maupassant was to follow him, while thinking that he followed Flaubert, in this rigorous art of cutting your coat to your cloth. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z The view was supported in France by Baudelaire and Flaubert, and by later schools like the Symbolists. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Greece and Egypt made a profound impression upon the imagination of Flaubert. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z This more than Flaubert was something not to be got from modern atheistic French "Art for Art's sake," nor from modern Levantine nonentity of character. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Flaubert urged as an objection to writing a novel, proving something that the other fellow can prove precisely the opposite. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But the realism is that of Flaubert and not of Zola. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z Who knew, for instance, that political commentator George Stephanopoulos flips for Flaubert or that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton digs Dostoevsky? DealBook: What Would Schwarzman Read? 2010-12-10T12:40:00Z Flaubert’s curious modes of composition favoured and were emphasized by these peculiarities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z There never was a greater sufferer from eye-strain than Flaubert, whose eyes were strikingly beautiful, and seemingly of extraordinary perfection as optical instruments. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z It is one of the paradoxes of art that the commonplace folk of Thackeray, Flaubert, or Anthony Trollope who delight us between covers would in life greatly bore us. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Describing the immensely popular verse romances like “Orlando Furioso,” for example, Pettegree shows that in the Renaissance these works were not read in the prolonged, silent trance experienced by readers of Dickens or Flaubert. Book Review - The Book in the Renaissance - By Andrew Pettegree 2010-08-13T17:04:00Z If Jane Eyre looks back to an almost medieval view of madness, Flaubert's Madame Bovary looks forward to the age of Freud and analysis. In the attic 2010-04-18T23:04:00Z One of the most severe of academic critics admits that “in all his works, and in every page of his works, Flaubert may be considered a model of style.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z There is a pathetic proof of the lesson doubly repeated in the lives of both Flaubert and Hearn. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Flaubert, his face turned to the past, his feet to the future, gazed sorrowfully at Carthage and wrote an epic of the bourgeois. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Flaubert tries to justify his instinctive antipathy to the idea of brotherhood by the assertion that this idea is always found to be in irreconcilable contradiction to the principle of equity. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski The gift of terse narration joined to great simplicity of language is found in French writers like Flaubert and Maupassant, but it is new to Germany. The Wish A Novel Less perhaps than any other writer, not of France, but of modern Europe, Flaubert yields admission to the inexact, the abstract, the vaguely inapt expression which is the bane of ordinary methods of composition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z A splended translation of Flaubert might be expected from several members of what is called "The New England School;" but what Boston publisher would engage his favourite literary man in such pursuits? Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Henry James tells a story of an argument between Zola, Flaubert, and Turgenev, the Russian novelist declaring that for him Châteaubriand was not the Ultima Thule of prose perfection. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z These few words throw a clearer light on the attitude of Flaubert during the latter years of his life than anything else. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski Flaubert published his posthumous poems with a notice of the author, in 1872. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The degree and manner in which, since his death, the fame of Flaubert has extended, form an interesting chapter of literary history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z There was then some talk of Flaubert, of his literary methods, of his indefatigable patience, and of the seven years he devoted to a work of four hundred pages. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 This insensibility to the finer nuances of the language angered and astounded Zola and Flaubert. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z During his sojourn in Jerusalem, Flaubert paid a visit to the lepers. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski "Wasn't it Flaubert who said that, in the hands of an artist, a disembowelled ox would make as fine a subject as any other?" Love's Usuries But even since the decline of the realistic school Flaubert has not lost prestige; other facets of his genius have caught the light. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Just listen," observed Gautier, "to what Flaubert said to me the other day: 'It is finished. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Flaubert is the father of realism as he is part parent of symbolism. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In the letter in which Flaubert describes the funeral of a friend of his childhood, his �sthetic cult of sadness reaches a still higher plane of meditativeness. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski Gautier, Flaubert, Tennyson, Percival Lowell, Edwin Arnold, Du Maurier, were some that abode with him for a season. Lafcadio Hearn Up to this time the sequestered and laborious life of Flaubert had been comparatively happy, but misfortunes began to gather around him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Their friend Flaubert perhaps better deserves the title. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 This elliptical method James absorbed from Flaubert, while his sometime oblique psychology is partly derived from Stendhal; indeed, without Stendhal both Meredith and James would have been sadly shorn of their psychological splendour. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The letters of Flaubert, published in two volumes, offer rich material for the study, from a living example, of the question of the antagonism which exists between the artistic and moral personality. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski This axiom it was that permeated the sinister perfection of Baudelaire, the verbal beauty of Flaubert, and the picturesqueness of Gautier. Lafcadio Hearn The personal character of Flaubert offered various peculiarities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Madame Bovary, in Gustave Flaubert's famous novel, took a dislike to her husband and went helplessly wrong, because the latter, after eating, used to clean his teeth by promenading his tongue inside his mouth. Her Royal Highness Woman Flaubert would spend a day over a sentence and practically tested it by declaiming—spouting, he called it—for as he wisely remarked: "A well-constructed phrase adapts itself to the rhythm of respiration." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His novels are not the issue of an impartial love of form, like Flaubert's. The Book of This and That One letter of George Sand's written to Flaubert, or one of Goethe's to Frau von Stein, or his friend Stilling, is worth pages of embellished reminiscences. Lafcadio Hearn You never heard the duo which Flaubert gives, did you? The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Flaubert says somewhere, ‘There are things in Hugo, as in Rabelais, that I could have mended, things badly built, but then what thrusts of power beyond the reach of conscious art!’ The Cutting of an Agate The Columbia University professor would be far more likely to indorse the axiom of Remy de Gourmont that style is physiological, which Flaubert well knew. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The better characteristics of her novels reappeared, perhaps to greater advantage, in her numerous and agreeable letters, especially those to the novelist Flaubert. A Short History of French Literature With that odd social unconventionality that distinguished him, he endeavoured to make this young girl of eighteen sympathise with his admiration of the artistic beauties of Flaubert and Gautier. Lafcadio Hearn It was just as though she were repeating the phrase that Flaubert puts in the Sphinx's mouth, 'I am guarding my secret—I calculate and I dream.' The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Flaubert and Daudet go as well with tea as Fielding and Smollett go with supper. Bye-Ways For me, he simply turned into superior "journalism" the ideas of Swinburne, Pater, Flaubert, Huysmans, De Quincey, and others. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The greatest of the Second Empire novelists is unquestionably Gustave Flaubert, who was born in 1821. A Short History of French Literature As well attempt, however, to gain a hearing for a free-thinking speech at Exeter Hall as to obtain readers for Gautier's or Flaubert's productions amidst a society nourished on Emerson, Longfellow, and Thoreau! Lafcadio Hearn I confess I regret Flaubert; especially if I could have persuaded Mrs. Wadman to be George Sand and smoke a cigar. Carnival Flaubert was astounded by him, George Sand looked up to him as to a Master, Taine spoke of his work as being the finest artistic production since Sophocles. An Outline of Russian Literature Turgeniev once wrote to Flaubert, "There is no longer any artist of the present time who is not also a critic." Interpreters Next, M. Flaubert selected an archaeological subject, and produced, after long study, Salammbo, a novel the scene of which is pitched at Carthage in the days of the mercenary war. A Short History of French Literature He next attempted a portion of some of Gautier's tales, included under the title of "One of Cleopatra's Nights"; then he undertook the arduous task of translating Flaubert's "La Tentation de Saint Antoine." Lafcadio Hearn Flaubert, the Psalms, Jacob Epstein's Oscar Wilde, the Eroica and Velasquez all give the sensation we call by those names; we mean by them that the work contains a suggestion of something behind. A Novelist on Novels Among all those men who had a profound, ineradicable contempt for the bourgeois, I have only known one who despised him even to a greater extent than he; it was Gustave Flaubert. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Up to that time, M. Daudet, M. Zola, M. Flaubert, and the brothers Goncourt had all been more or less unpopular authors. Methods of Authors The naturalists affect to derive from Stendhal, through Balzac and Flaubert. A Short History of French Literature She produced a host of writings in prose and verse, but she is perhaps best known for her intimate connexion with some of her famous contemporaries, Abel Villemain, Gustave Flaubert and Victor Cousin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Then the mood passes, and he is driven back to Flaubert's view that it is a dog's life, but the only one. A Novelist on Novels The card bore the simple superscription of "Gustave Flaubert." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections But on this point he had a good example in his god-father and master Gustave Flaubert, who, though a realist of realists, showed deep interest in the Tempter of St. Anthony. Devil Stories An Anthology Well, maybe we can get Etienne Flaubert to do something with them. Jimsy and the Monsters He made a short story of it in the manner of Flaubert, minute, vivid and grim. Aliens True, some writers, to-day in their cradles, may yet emulate Flaubert, but they will not be Flaubert. A Novelist on Novels Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Heine, George Eliot, Flaubert, Coleridge, and Shelley—to mention only a few distinguished lay names—found in Spinoza a powerful, stimulating and, in varying degrees, congenial thinker. The Philosophy of Spinoza If Flaubert in Sentimental Education originated a novel structure in fiction, Conrad may claim the same honour; his edifice, in its contrapuntal presentation of character and chapter suspensions, is new, tantalisingly, bewilderingly, refreshingly, new. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The jungle cages were duly summoned and so was Etienne Flaubert of the Golden West Animal Education Studios on Sunset Boulevard. Jimsy and the Monsters What would Balzac or Flaubert have known of life if they had been merely gentlemen? Aliens Did I say something about poor old Bob Flaubert not having a gun, while I did? Frigid Fracas Sally heard her say "Ah," in sign of agreement, and once "Oh, yes, of course Flaubert...." Coquette Mr. Moore, who is a landscape-painter, has drawn a capital picture of the forest, though not with the fulness of charm to be found in Flaubert's treatment of the same theme in Sentimental Education. Ivory Apes and Peacocks And there stood Etienne Flaubert, huge and more or less unafraid, in the middle of the cage. Jimsy and the Monsters When Flaubert wrote “Madame Bovary,” I believe he thought chiefly of a somewhat morbid realism; and behold! the book turned in his hands into a masterpiece of appalling morality. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) The court ruled that you, Robert Flaubert and James Hideka be stripped of rank and forbidden the Category Military. Frigid Fracas O—and I read over again for this purpose Flaubert’s Tentation de St. Antoine; it struck me a good deal at first, but this second time it has fetched me immensely. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Being a creative genius, Flaubert taught himself to be versatile. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Dr. Mildume opened the door quickly and Flaubert slipped into the cage. Jimsy and the Monsters Fat Peg is oddly of a piece with the work of Zola, the Goncourts, and the infinitely greater Flaubert; and, while similar in ugliness, still surpasses them in a native power. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) He entered his house wearily, finally free of all the ridiculous questioning of the commission and the courts martial of Mauser and Cogswell, and Flaubert, Hideka and their commander, General McCord. Frigid Fracas Flaubert was astounded by him, George Sand looked up to him as to a master, Taine spoke of his work as being the finest artistic production since Sophocles. Fathers and Children To the neurasthenic Hearn, his brain big with glorious dreams, the Parisian pagan must have seemed godlike in his half-smiling, half-contemptuous mastery of language, a mastery in its ease not outrivalled even by Flaubert. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Dr. Mildume opened the cage door with his rope and Flaubert went through it—himself a blur. Jimsy and the Monsters And even if I were wrong in thinking it specially wanted, it will not be lost; for do we not know, in Flaubert’s dread confession, that “prose is never done”? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Flaubert has a wider range and more varied sympathies than Carlyle, and in intensity of vision occasionally surpasses him. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe He chose the best of every school,— Stendhal and Keats and Donne, Balzac and Stevenson; Wordsworth and Flaubert filled their place. The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems And then he contradicted himself in practice by attempting to write like Hugo and Flaubert. Ivory Apes and Peacocks For a vivid picture of the psychology of the ascetic, see Flaubert's great romance, St. Antony. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development But this 304 Flaubert business must be resisted in the premises. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Both are mystics, visionaries, from their youth; but in ethics Flaubert seems to attain at a bound the point of view which the dragging years alone revealed to Carlyle. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe They talked as though Rousseau and Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac and Flaubert, Maupassant and all the rest were still vital dazzling news to the world, because these men were still molding the world. The Harbor She is the first of the Salomés since Flaubert who has caught some of her prototype's fragrance. Ivory Apes and Peacocks I did not attempt a monument in the frozen manner of your Flaubert. Melomaniacs Fielding, Henry; biographical note on, IV, 75; articles by—Tom the hero enters the stage, 75; Partridge sees Garrick at the play, 83; Mr. Adams in a political light, 89.Flaubert, The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The chapter on the death of Frederick the Great reads like a passage from the Correspondance of Flaubert in his first manhood. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe I took to myself the advice of Flaubert, and from a table before a caf� I would watch the people around me and jot down the minutest details, I filled whole pages with my strokes. The Harbor Zola reproached both De Goncourt and Flaubert for their verbal artistry. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Flaubert is magnificently naked, but his nakedness implicates nothing that is—" "As usual you men enter the zone of silence when a woman's work is mentioned. Melomaniacs At the beginning of this year she had written on this subject to Flaubert, in the brave spirit she would fain impart to her weaker brethren:— Life is perhaps eternal, and work in consequence eternal. Famous Women: George Sand The Russian indeed never quite understood Flaubert's "rage for the word." The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe "But you know what Flaubert himself said about style before he had done—just what I am saying!" The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius He found Maupassant "deficient in the moral sense"; yet he was interested and followed the progress of Flaubert's pupil. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Yes, Billy, it will always be Gustave Flaubert, and I worship him more and more every day. Melomaniacs Artists are spoilt children," she writes to Flaubert, "and the best of them are great egoists. Famous Women: George Sand It was the supreme friendship of Flaubert's later manhood as that with Bouilhet was the friendship of his earlier years. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe If one takes the most brilliant of his successors outside the Naturalist school—Flaubert and Feuillet—very little that is really Balzacian will be found in either. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century There are letters of Flaubert to his disciple full of his explosive good nature, big heart, irascibility and generous outpouring on the subject of his art. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Though they are marvellously real, his scenes have not that precise and strict perfection which Flaubert used to give to his. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Is not the link between Flaubert's "indifference" and his conception of art evident here? Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life It controls the meditative depth of Leopardi, the melancholy of Tourgenieff, the nobler of Ibsen's dramas, and the cadenced prose of Flaubert. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Now no doubt there was something of Edmond de Goncourt's bad-blooded fatuity in his claim that his and his brother's epithets were "personal," while Flaubert's were not. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He imitated the externals of Flaubert, his irony, his vivid power of picture-making; even his pessimism he developed—though that was personal, as we shall soon see. Ivory Apes and Peacocks There are characters in his works quite as depraved as those in Flaubert and in Zola. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant We recognise here the particular and special form of Flaubert's pessimism. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life In Saint Antoine, Flaubert found the secret of the same mystic inspiration as Carlyle found in Cromwell. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe The better part of him, as with Flaubert before, transcended—even openly contemned—the 'isms of his day: but he too often let himself be subservient to them, if he was never exactly their Helot. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And yet his work is utterly unlike Flaubert, probably unlike what Flaubert had hoped for—the old man died in 1881 and therefore did not live to enjoy Maupassant in full bloom. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Because of these "nonrival" and "nonexcludable" characteristics, Flaubert's publisher would have a more difficult time coming up with a business plan than the petunia farmer. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind It is, then, natural that, from day to day, Flaubert should become a guide, and here, if we consider the nature of the lessons he gives, we cannot deny their towering excellence. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Thus much one can see quite clearly from reading de Maupassant, Flaubert's pupil, whose stark and savage strokes of clean-cut visualisation never attain the imaginative atmosphere or Rabelaisian aplomb of Balzac's rural scenes. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Nowhere is Flaubert's power of description greater; nowhere, too, is that other power noticed—the removal of all temptation to say "Very pretty, but rather added ornament"—more triumphantly displayed. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Of Flaubert's harmonious and imaginatively coloured manner, Maupassant shows no trace in his six novels and his two hundred and odd tales. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The Just Steward, from one standpoint, makes the labours of Gustave Flaubert in Salaambo seem trivial. When Winter Comes to Main Street These expressions must be taken literally in Flaubert's case. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Even Flaubert himself makes a kind of philosophic attitude out of his loathing for the common-place. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations There is one slight danger in the estimate of Flaubert to which, though I actually pointed it out, I think I may have succumbed a little when I first wrote about him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It is to be believed that Flaubert also had some quiet fun with the brothers and with Zola regarding their mania for note taking; read Bouvard et Pécuchet for confirmation of this idea of mine. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It needs an imagination that is very nearly "Shakespearean" and it needs a passion for beautiful style of which a Flaubert or an Anatole France might be proud. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions For there are many ways of being a pessimist, and Flaubert's was not at all like that of Schopenhauer or Leopardi. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life If he were all the while fussing about his style in the exhausting Flaubert manner, the rich dim reek of all this time-mellowed humanity would never strike our senses as it does. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Moreover, Flaubert does not even laugh as the great Jew and the great Englishman did. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Turgenieff, for whom Guy entertained a profound regard, had influenced him more than he, with his doglike fidelity for Flaubert, would have cared to acknowledge. Ivory Apes and Peacocks As a novelist he was the precursor of the naturalistic school of romance in France, and was later "Stendhal" acknowledged as such by Balzac, Flaubert and Emile Zola. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) It is not necessary to exaggerate Flaubert's influence. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Putting Flaubert aside, Henry James is the only one of the great modern novelists to be absolutely free from any philosophical system. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Of Flaubert's famous doctrine of "the single word" perhaps a little more should, after all, be said. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Flaubert once wrote of the vast fund of indifference possessed by society. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Not Flaubert with his one right word, not the school “gang” with its nicknames, can equal them. Penguin Persons & Peppermints If literary art is a "representation," it is also something more; and the lapse in Flaubert, as in all those who have followed him in the letter, lies in having missed this distinction. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life And if they are to be thus collected may we not hope for one or two new essays with, say, for subjects, Flaubert and Huysmans? The Merry-Go-Round I do not think that Flaubert and Baudelaire had much reason to pride themselves on their predecessor in this particular pillory. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It was Mr. Saintsbury who first called attention to the clear flame of Flaubert's visions as exemplified by his Temptation of St. Anthony. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It means the conviction of Flaubert: “You may fatten the human beast, give him straw up to his belly, and gild his manger; but he remains a brute, say what you will.” The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Such success might have influenced Flaubert's artistic inclinations but did not, for while Madame Bovary was appearing in the Revue de Paris, the Artiste was publishing fragments of La Tentation de Saint Antoine. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Not that the heroine is a creole exactly, or that Miss Chopin is a Flaubert—save the mark!—but the theme is similar to that which occupied Flaubert. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays That Flaubert was a Realist "in the best sense of the term" has been again and again affirmed in the brief reviews of his novels given above. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century To be quite frank, he rewrote Flaubert and the Goncourts in many of his books. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Flaubert, we know, read him constantly 127for style; and no less constantly "found himself" in the self-revelation and analysis of the essays. Montaigne and Shakspere At the age of twenty-five, Flaubert met the only woman who in any way entered his sentimental life. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Flaubert said that a drop of water contained all the elements of the sea, save one—immensity. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays As a "thirdsman" to Flaubert and Dumas fils, he shows some interesting differences. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century "The first time I saw Turgenieff was at Gustave Flaubert's—a door opened; a giant came in, a giant with a silver head, as they would say in a fairy tale." Ivory Apes and Peacocks Among those whom we know him to have acted upon in the highest 120degree—setting aside the disputed case of Bacon—are Pascal, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Flaubert, Emerson, and Thoreau. Montaigne and Shakspere Flaubert wrote neither for money nor for fame. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life He rivalled Gautier, Flaubert and de Maupassant before they were born. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays But there have been few stranger than the obstinacy and almost passion with which the Romanticism of Heine, of Thackeray, and of Flaubert has been denied. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The literary apprenticeship of Guy to Gustave Flaubert is a thrice-told tale, and signifies only this: If the pupil had not been richly endowed all the lessons of Flaubert would have availed him little. Ivory Apes and Peacocks She read everything—from the lacy sentimentalism of Myrtle Read to Samuel Butler and translations of Gorky and Flaubert. The Job An American Novel For this Flaubert was prosecuted, on the charge of offending against public morals, but was acquitted after the remarkable defense offered by Maître Senard. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life For Mr. Bierce, as did Flaubert, holds that the right word is necessary for the conveyance of the right thought and his sense of word values rarely betrays him into error. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 As I have said this, the reader may expect, magisterially, dreadingly, or perhaps in some very "gentle" cases hopefully, a full chapter on Flaubert. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And when I further insist that the younger man appropriated whole scenes from Flaubert for his longer stories, especially from L'Education Sentimentale, I feel that I am uttering a paradox. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The amount of research which this work suggests is almost incredible, and it was perhaps a more laborious undertaking to paint the Vintage at Rome than to write the Carthaginian romance of Gustave Flaubert. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Flaubert, indeed, had no "outward life;" he lived only for his art. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life "Too much paper, my son!" old Flaubert majestically observed with a smile when the author presented him with a copy of his book. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Hardly any one, speaking critically, could, I suppose, also speak thus positively about Flaubert's second book, Salammbô—a romance of Carthaginian history at the time of the Mutiny of the Mercenaries. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century If it did not sound quite heretical I should be tempted to assert that the writer Maupassant most patterned after, was Prosper Mérimée, an artist detested by Flaubert because of his hard style. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Had the hatred of life become dominant in him as in Flaubert? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. We have done wrong in considering Flaubert a naturalist impeded by his romanticism, or a romanticist impenitent, irritated with himself because of his tendency to naturalism. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life A band of ardent, active, and audacious young men, among whom M. Émile Zola was specially distinguished by the research of his formulæ, began to link him with Flaubert, offering them a common worship. Renée Mauperin That there was no danger of Flaubert's merely palming off, in his novel work, replicas with a few superficial differences, had now been shown. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century There is no truth in the gossip that Guy was the son of Flaubert. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Her last days were spent in studying the correspondence of two great citizens of the town which sheltered her, Bouilhet and Flaubert. The Story of Rouen The complaint, as revealed after his death by Maxime Ducamp, was epilepsy, and the constant fear of suffering an attack in public led Flaubert to live the life of a recluse. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life In front of her lay more sheets, scored through, corrected, polished, until Flaubert himself would have been satisfied with the labour bestowed. In the Mist of the Mountains It is perhaps partly because, in spite of that inoffensiveness, it fixes on one a grasp superior to anything of Beyle's and equal to anything of Flaubert's or Maupassant's. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Flaubert loved both the Poittevins; hence his lively interest in Guy. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A town that in art can show the names of Poussin, Jouvenet, and Géricault; and in letters, Gustave Flaubert, Maupassant, and Hector Malot, has not been left too far behind by older memories. The Story of Rouen In 1858 Flaubert went to Tunis, visited the site of ancient Carthage, and four years afterwards wrote Salammbô, a marvellous reconstitution, more than half intuitive, of a civilisation practically unrecorded in history. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life It reminds me of what I have read of Flaubert’s methods.” In the Mist of the Mountains But as it stands with the sketch of a completion, I do not think that Flaubert's alchemy had yet achieved or approached projection. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century One of his examining physicians there was Doctor Franklin Grout, who later married Flaubert's niece, Caroline Commanville. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Flaubert once said in a letter, "Life is so hideous that the only way of enduring it is to avoid it." Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Their friendship lasted eight years and ended unpleasantly, Flaubert being too absorbed by his worship for art to let passion sway him. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life His true Penelope was Flaubert, He fished by obstinate isles; Observed the elegance of Circe's hair Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley His fidelity and devotion to what he thought art were as unflinching as Flaubert's own. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Her death is more lamentable than Anna's—one can well sympathise with Flaubert's mental and physical condition after he had written that appalling chapter describing the poisoning of Emma. Ivory Apes and Peacocks English prose, on the other hand, is singularly lacking in this quality; and for this cause it would never have produced a Flaubert, despite its splendid achievements in style. John Lyly Flaubert's method of production was slow and laborious. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life It is far less marked, for instance, than the contrast between Voltaire and Victor Hugo or that between Victor Hugo and Flaubert. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield One of the longest and most careful of those detailed surveys of forty years ago, to which I have perhaps too often referred, was devoted to Flaubert, and was slightly supplemented after his death. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He, like Baudelaire, Flaubert, and De Maupassant, was summoned before the bar of justice for outraging public morals by the publication of his play, The Box of Pandora, the sequel to Erdgeist. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Two men by their simple and lucid teaching gave me the strength to try again and again: Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. In Flaubert, a Romanticist and a Naturalist at first were blended. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life He was early associated with the great Norman master of fiction, Gustave Flaubert, who perceived his genius and enthusiastically undertook the training of his intelligence. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories I have never found myself in the very slightest degree gêné—as the abonné was by Gautier's and as others are by the styles of Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Henry James—by Flaubert's style. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Think of such an accomplished practitioner as the late M. Brunetière, writing as he did of Flaubert and Baudelaire. Ivory Apes and Peacocks At a later date, Flaubert, whom I had occasionally met, took a fancy to me. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Unfortunately, nearly all the works of Flaubert's youth were mere sketches, laid aside by him. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Albert Vandam was among the spectators; and with him for a companion was a much more distinguished person, Gustave Flaubert. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Yet, as has been remarked before, nothing shows Flaubert's greatness better than his absolute freedom from the "rut." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century But Flaubert is so difficult to translate because he has no fixed rhythm; his prose keeps step with no regular march-music. Figures of Several Centuries He could never take the rigorously impassive attitude which Flaubert taught Maupassant to assume. The Nabob, Volume 1 Gustave Flaubert attempted only to work out his art, for and through the love of art. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Matho—in Flaubert's Salammbô was beaten to a jelly but his eyes still flamed with love for his princess—But when she saw him as this revolting mass, did her love flame for him? Man and Maid The unlikeness in particular is very striking, and shows that peculiar victoriousness in accomplishing what he attempted which is so characteristic of Flaubert. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century That perfect book is perfect because Flaubert had, for once, found exactly the subject suited to his method, had made his method and his subject one. Figures of Several Centuries Flaubert has named twenty-nine as the eventful year in the life of woman, and thirty-three for men. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians It is that which explains the mixture of "romanticism," "naturalism," and I will add, of "classicism"—which has been pointed out more than once in Flaubert's work. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life |
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