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...Reading is the only thing I really enjoy. I have read constantly since I was twelve. I read about four or five books a week, and I have finished over 200 books in the last five months alone." Capote is particularly disposed to Proust, Flaubert, Jane Austen, Turgenev, and, among living writers, E. M. Forster. He has a voluminous Proust collection, including a number of obscure biographies...
...played the part of the repentant Magdalene." Marie died of consumption at 23, and young Dumas never forgot her glamorous, terrible life. He became "The Man in Flight from Temptation," began to write plays in which seducers were condemned with such cold precision that Parisians were horrified. Complained Gustave Flaubert: "Preventing petticoats from being lifted has become a perfect mania with...
LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character...
...FOOTNOTE*-At present more than 4,000 (only 32 new ones have been added in the last five years), the majority because of "theological error" rather than immorality. Among Indexed books: Richardson's Pamela; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Hugo's Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, all the works of Anatole France, Zola, Maeterlinck...
...sounded his defiance most sharply in answering F. Scott Fitzgerald's advice to write more like Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert, who "has consciously left out the stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they...