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1 day ago · Here Jameson’s go-to text is Gustave Flaubert’s novella, A Simple Heart [1877], in part because it had already been Roland Barthes’s go-to text in a landmark essay on the production of bourgeois reality (1968). It bears noticing that “The Horla” and A Simple Heart are not entirely unrelated: Maupassant was Flaubert protégé. André ...
5 days ago · — The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert There is something about the coming of fall that makes people conscious of their own insecurity. Just as squirrels step up the pace in the annual nutgathering festival, human beings begin to think a little bit more seriously about the prospects of the winter ahead—and most of them show some sort of ...
2 days ago · Upon the publication of Madame Bovary in 1856 Gustave Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity and offending public morals. In 1857 he was acquitted, and, aided by the publicity from the trial, Madame Bovary became a bestseller.
4 days ago · As Gustave Flaubert noted some years later in a letter to a friend: “The first to sing the praises of La Lanterne to me was a magistrate (M. Censier) and the first to make me read it was a priest (the vicar of Ouville).
1 day ago · Symbolism (movement) Death and the Grave Digger (La Mort et le Fossoyeur) (c.1895) by Carlos Schwabe is a visual compendium of symbolist motifs. The angel of Death, pristine snow, and the dramatic poses of the characters all express symbolist longings for transfiguration "anywhere, out of the world". Symbolism was a late 19th-century art ...
3 days ago · Short abstract: This thesis re-evaluates the contributions made to discussions of the life and novels of Gustave Flaubert by Jean-Paul Sartre in L’Idiot de la famille (1971–1972) and Pierre Bourdieu in Les Règles de l’art (1992). Its analysis confronts Sartre’s biographical method with Bourdieu’s sociological exploration of the ...
4 days ago · In his second Ruskin note, from April 1973, Beavers copied lines from Gustave Flaubert’s 1849 notebook—a recollection of coping with pending separations before his departure for Egypt: “The next two days I lived lavishly—huge dinners, quantities of wine, whores. The senses are not far removed from the emotions, and my poor tortured ...
