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2 days ago · This essay discusses the metanarrative aspect of Elena Ferrante’s La vita bugiarda degli adulti (2019, The Lying Life of Adults 2020) as it relates to the legacy of fathers and at least one literary father, Gustave Flaubert as the author of Madame Bovary. The paternal in Ferrante’s novels is not an aspect that critical literature normally ...
2 days ago · Although Kafka absorbed the work of an eclectic assortment of classical and modern writers—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Adalbert Stifter, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Robert Walser—he developed a unique style, which owes something to the precise, limpid prose that he honed in his official reports at his day job as a lawyer.
5 days ago · We cannot live without our “fictions,” whatever they may be, whether utopian or dystopian, but Jean-Paul Sartre, a self-effacing, anti-intellectual intellectual who improvised his works, resolving vainly never to repeat himself, at least not in the same way, believed that Gustave Flaubert’s constructivism was antithetical to the governing principle of imagination, which is freedom, or no ...
1 day ago · Après Gustave Flaubert, Les docs de la grande librairie, se penchent sur l'une des romancières préférées des Français, et livre un portrait indédit. Colette est l'une des romancières ...
5 days ago · Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. 51. The Duel by Anton Chekhov. 52. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. 53. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 54. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. 55. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. 56. Watership Down by Richard Adams. 57. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. 58. Gulliver's Travels by ...
3 days ago · Who is Gustave Flaubert. Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR, French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for ...
4 days ago · The critical establishment was generally hostile to the novel; Taine found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, Gustave Flaubert found within it "neither truth nor greatness", the Goncourt brothers lambasted its artificiality, and Baudelaire —despite giving favourable reviews in newspapers—castigated it in private ...
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