A passage from one of Flaubert’s letters written during the composition of Madame Bovary, transcribed in Francis Steegmuller’s (quite wonderful, if a bit wacky) Flaubert and Madame Bovary… more →
ads without productsBeautifulMess wrote 1 day ago: Life is like a bowl of soup with hairs floating on it. You have to eat it nevertheless. – Flau … more →
bakerkline wrote 6 days ago: Gustave Flaubert kept rotten apples in his desk drawer to evoke autumn when writing scenes that took … more →
Thomas Cox wrote 1 week ago: As if I needed any more proof that Julian Barnes is my favourite author, 2 pages into his novel, Fla … more →
adswithoutproducts wrote 1 week ago: A passage from one of Flaubert’s letters written during the composition of Madame Bovary, tra … more →
11wordstogus wrote 1 week ago: Csak egy igen keveset Flaubert-ről – az ember gyakran azokról mer nyilatkozni legkevésbé, akikre leg … more →
Thomas Cox wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ll confess to having read Flaubert’s Madame Bovary on the recommendation of someone wh … more →
fiction4life wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve always been fascinated by this scribe tribe image…this clan of ours that stretches … more →
Kayla Hillier wrote 3 weeks ago: This weekend I went to visit my parents in Belle River (or Belle Rivière- population 4,000) as they … more →
Robin Gosnall wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve recently resumed reading novels as a major activity, and I’ve had to face the fact that I know … more →
hiddenconnections wrote 3 weeks ago: This photo was taken from Henri Troyat’s biography of Gustave Flaubert. The caption reads: P … more →
hiddenconnections wrote 3 weeks ago: You should seriously consider embarking upon the richly-rewarding study of Gustave Flaubert if you … more →
hiddenconnections wrote 1 month ago: [The war elephants] choked men with their trunks, or tore them from the ground and delivered them t … more →
Kevin Wilder wrote 1 month ago: click here to jump to this week’s chapter The camp counselors here at Camp Some New Trend have … more →
Neil Kurtzman wrote 1 month ago: Before turning the last page, I’ve been trying to reread some of the masterpieces of literatur … more →
bob wrote 1 month ago: “THE ONE WAY OF TOLERATING EXISTENCE IS TO LOSE ONESELF IN LITERATURE AS IN A PERPETUAL ORGY. … more →
urbesque wrote 1 month ago: Posted by Nick Sarno Via Prospect: Flaubert, said Henry James, was “the novelist’s novelist. … more →
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adswithoutproducts wrote 1 month ago: “Of the vaporization and centralization of the Ego. Everything depends upon that.” (Baud … more →
omnologos wrote 1 month ago: From Gustave Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Received Ideas“, “(in French, Le Dict … more →