18 posts tagged gustave flaubert

Maxime du Camp - Gustave Flaubert: 1858-1851: Souvenirs litteraires -- Prima Parte Posted by webmaster on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 11:35 in Gustave Flaubert Travel in the Greek World French MAXIME DU CAMP – GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact - uniquely correct - word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do. Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.

Before I begin looking at the book itself, a few words as to why I chose to review this instead of the half-dozen others I had recently read. Recently, I had an email conversation that dealt with, among a great many other things, works of fantasy that were challenging and which showed some daring to go away from a now "conventional" model.

Having left Egypt, Gustave and Max are returning home, but still manage to have a few adventures on their way. 11 March 1851 they find themselves in Naples. Flauberts letter from Naples to Camille Rogier:- "The number of pimps in this town is a delight.

“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert (source: Time Management for Creative People)

Desktop: Flaubert Quote Posted 3 January 2008 at 9:09 am Here is a desktop image for your computing pleasure. The quote arrived in my inbox via Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day, along with the word, “anthropomorphize.”

THE BLUSH OF THE NEW (NY Times) By LEE SIEGEL Published: December 30, 2007 Thomas Mann was an archmodernist, and this was his favorite story: One day, Gustave Flaubert was out walking with his sister. Ferociously antibourgeois, Flaubert lived alone, unconsoled and unencumbered by marriage or family.

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804 – 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist. She was contemporary with Benjamin's favourite poet, Baudelaire, who had this to say about her:- "She is stupid, heavy and garrulous.

Our ignorance of history makes us calumniate our own time. We have always been like this. Some calm years have deceived us. That is all. I too believed in the softening of manners. We must erase this error and esteem ourselves no more than people esteemed themelves in the time of Pericles or Shakespeare, atrocious epochs in which fine things were done.

“We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ‘new fellow,’ not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.” - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Between the novel The Heroine and my interest in 19th Century literature, Madame Bovary seemed an excellent book to bite into.