Word: flaubert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a curious resemblance between this relic of past life and certain relics of present life now in the making. There have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into...
...Flaubert prize of about $3,000, instituted by an unknown benefactor to literature, was awarded to François Robiscon de la Querinière for his novel, The Spanish Grandee...
Inquiries were instituted into the past of M. Robischon. He was a retired business man who dabbled in literature as a hobby. He is very rich. Yes, he was the originator of the Flaubert prize! " C'est très gentil," remarked the Latin Quarter contemptuously...
...book is not to be judged as a whole but shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
...however high a place man may reach in the literary world by means of his back writings they can not make his position permanent. Maupassant, who wrote for seven years before he published a single word and submitted his work only to his master Flaubert for criticism, is pointed out as ideal, but he would have a poor time of it today. This is the age when everyone must cultivate "self-expression" through the mail if possible, --and everyone prefers to cultivate it out loud. And the worst of it is that, even in advocating attence, there must be more...