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...Hill of Jesus began to turn up in war dispatches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egyptian hill came to have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms, and even cabarets...
...either of A Sucesora or its author, prior to the accusation. Her publishers point out that "the sad-second-wife setup" (framework of both novels) is as old as the Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought but ne'er so well express...
...their inadequacy, the disparity between the scale of the political events and their literary reflection. Men still found it easier to understand Stalin's Russia from Dostoevski's The Possessed. Nowhere had the causes of the fall of France been described with the completeness and power of Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Nothing the spokesmen for democracy said was as good as their quotations from democracy's founders, from Luther to Washington and Jefferson...
Harvard names aren't the only familiar ones included in the New Directions catalogue. There is material by such varied talents as Kay Boyle, Confucius, John Donne, Flaubert, Goethe: and Ezra Pound, to mention only...
...talking about books and authors that Vag Knew nothing about. About James Farrell and Steinbeck, and W. H. Auden and MacNeice. (MacNeice? MacNeice? Never heard of him. But Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men" and he had seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote the French 6 textbook, but he wasn't sure. About...