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Moderate Cantabile is a French movie made by an Englishman, Director Peter Brook (Lord of the Flies). Surprisingly, it seems an authentic French movie; unhappily, it is not a very good one. Based on a novel by Marguerite Duras, Moderate retells the sad tale of Flaubert's Emma Bovary as a contemporary case. Poor Emma. She always was a dull little dame, but in 1857 she at least made a social point...
...troubling Franny; she suffers, like Holden Caulfield, from an intense weariness of all that is phony, from an oversensitivity to the world. She is sick of all the egos madly dancing around her?at school, in her summer theater, at the luncheon table at which Lane Coutell is dissecting Flaubert along with his frogs' legs. To escape, Franny has seized on a religious classic called The Way of a Pilgrim, in which an anonymous Russian peasant tells how he roamed the land first learning, and then teaching, the Jesus Prayer. " 'Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me.' I mean that...
...From Flaubert, whose bust he used to salute while crossing the Luxembourg Gardens to his Montparnasse flat, Hemingway learned precision, the right word in the right place. But there is an emotional intensity in a random Hemingway sentence that the teachers do not account for and the imitators and parodists never capture. The effect of "In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels" depends on a special quality of vision. Everything in Hemingway is seen as it might...
...burst on the Seine in a 1959 bestselling novel, Zazie has become almost as influential as Colette's Gigi at the height of La Belle Epoque. Critics have compared Zazie's creator-Raymond Queneau, a distinguished poet and chief reader at the Gallimard publishing house-to Flaubert, Stendhal, Hugo and Hegel. (One angry dissenter: Nobel Prize Laureate François Mauriac...
...write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This first novel challenges neither of the masters but shows that modesty and sympathy can be enough to make a death seem both dignified and touching...