Word: flaubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary Establishment has never considered Anthony Trollope a great novelist, like such near contemporaries as Tolstoy, Flaubert or Balzac. Noted at least partly for his prodigious output -47 novels, five travel books, and innumerable articles-he has never been ranked higher than third or fourth among his peers in Victorian England, after Dickens, George Eliot and probably Thackeray. Readers, however, have been kinder, and Trollope has always enjoyed an enthusiastic following. During World War II, for example, he ranked first in the esteem of English readers, and Londoners took him down to the Tubes to help them forget the German...
...alive are his incantations today? In 1857, the same year Flaubert was prosecuted for the alleged obscenity of Madame Bovary, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs for "offending public morality" with Les Fleurs du Mai. The theme of Flaubert's novel-the bored-to-adultery housewife-is the stuff soap operas are made of 120 years later. Today, Baudelaire's tragically ignored poems retain their original capacity to lacerate the skin of the mind...
Enraptured Paris. The space is never real. Cornell's L 'Egypte de Mile, Cléo de Mérode, 1940, is not the Egypt seen by Flaubert, detachedly noting the gleam of his white socks at midnight on the Nile. Cornell had never been, or wished to go, to that Egypt. But in his mind the image of Cléo de Mérode, a courtesan who so enraptured Paris society in the '90s that even Proust is said to have murmured "Gloria in excelsis Cléo!" when she walked into Maxim...
Tales of George Sand's amours with Liszt, Heine, Balzac and Flaubert are also dismissed as apocryphal. With the record thus cleared, Biographer Cate dramatically details the involvements that his scholarship can verify-including affairs with Prosper Mérimeée, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, one Italian surgeon, two French lawyers and an international assortment of young men who entered Sand's household as tutors for her two children, Maurice and Solange...
...stark misery of factory and tenement is assimilation into the elite through physical beauty and seductive charm, as the heroines of mass culture from Cinderella to Marilyn Monroe have discovered. Had De Sica treated the contradictions in Clara's self-awareness with the sardonic tone whose subtle pinpricks enabled Flaubert to deflate Madame Bovary's romantic illusions. A Brief Vacation might have been a penetrating analysis of the obstacles that inhibit working women's emancipation. Because it founders in its heroine's false consciousness instead the film is most realistic where it is least perceptive, as its unintended ironies subvert...