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...Nabokov acknowledges, Don Quixote the novel may be flawed, but Don Quixote the man is permanent. The bony knight and his fat squire, Sancho Panza, are the most recognizable duo in all of fiction. The lecturer traces their "long shadow" through the works of such disparate men as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Had he ventured only a little further, he might have found quixotic elements in the books of Saul Bellow, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov...
...sometimes we harbor a subversive suspicion that it doesn't really matter. Once, we think, we were a people of the book. Now we begin to seem, perhaps irreparably, a people of the tube. The race of literary giants, the tyrant genius founders (Homer, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust and so-on), will of course be safely stowed away on microfilm:literature freeze-dried, the Great Books kept as curios of the culture, like shrunken heads. But the writing we tend to get now, books milling around aimlessly at the dead end of the post modern (or wherever we technically...
...Bernard Cohen. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, plans to re-read Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge and plow through a tome or two of Sartre and Flaubert. But for an undergraduate not necessarily interested in chasing the history of science on every lazy afternoon, he chooses this septet, including three books by colleagues...
...Sentimental Education, by Gustav Flaubert...
...titles of the three theses were: "Strength and Wealth: Dostoyevsky's Bionic Hero or Six Million Ruble Man," by K. Brothers, Princeton class of '82, "Liquification and Deconstructionism. The Image of the Blender in Proust, Flaubert and Joyee," by Petrarcha Checker '85, and "The Naked Eye and Other Images of Obscenity in 'I Am a Camera' and 'The Eye of the Needle," by Ansel Hansel...