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Merwin himself had a Princeton education but does not let that binder his creativity. He uses the routine of writing to bypass his critical faculties. "I just try to work every morning." Flaubert said, "Inspiration consists of sitting down at the same table at the same time every day. That's wonderful, because it's so plain and takes all the sort of breathiness out of it. And Flaubert was a very great writer, don't you think...
Contemporary English fiction is becoming incestuous. The intricate, clever construction of Black Dogs calls to mind works like Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, which is written backwards. The form of the novel clearly betrays the influence of Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, in which a literary scholar hides from the failure of his marriage in his obsession with Flaubert. Amis, Barnes and McEwan are close friends. The three friends inspire and rival one another. The form of Black Dogs echoes the smart, complex, but often self-conscious tone of McEwan's literary circle...
Barnes' novels defy categorization. He is best known for Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and the ambitiously titled, A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters. Talking It Over (1991) also garnered extraordinary critical and popular acclaim...
Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now. Almost a generation older than Picasso, his counterpart, he was born in 1869, the year the Suez Canal opened and Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale. Everything that looked modern in Matisse's environment is now ancient, from the gas buggies that were just coming onto the streets of Paris when he was a student in Gustave Moreau's atelier to the Vichy politicians who ran France during the Nazi occupation as he painted in Vence...
...Quotations and Roget's Thesaurus -- have appeared in electronic form. But when it comes to literature, the electronic-publishing movement has run into resistance from both readers and publishers. As inevitable as the paperless book may seem, neither group could quite imagine sitting down to read Faulkner, Fielding or Flaubert on a computer...