Word: flaubert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognize in ourselves the temptation that Paz meant--the liberating flash of decision, the mad, giddy flight. The spectacle of such love is bracing, even when scandalous and self-destructive--or perhaps because of that. In Emma Bovary's case, Flaubert pursued the story past the giddy dash to a sadder place down the road (dead end, suicide...
With his voluminous poetry reckoned in, Hugo's effect on French literature exceeded anything short of the Bible itself. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gautier all stood in his shadow, along with foreigners like Dostoyevsky and Conrad. In the words of English scholar Graham Robb, whose brilliant new biography, Victor Hugo (Norton; 682 pages; $39.95), does for this sublime windbag what George Painter did for Proust 30 years ago, Hugo was "a one-man education system through which every writer had to pass...The story of Hugo's influence after death is the story of a river after it reaches...
...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...
...Gustave Flaubert's story A Simple Heart, an old French woman pines for a beloved nephew, a sailor who has disappeared in Cuba. Later she acquires a parrot. Because it comes from the Americas, it reminds her of him. When the parrot dies, she has it stuffed and set in her room among her items of religious veneration. On her deathbed, she has a vision of heaven. The clouds part to reveal an enormous parrot...
...sure there is much of a difference in the level of discussion," agreed Julie C. Suk '97, who is taking a French 90 seminar on Flaubert this semester and who took a seminar last year that was comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students...