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Three short works
Gustave Flaubert
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Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France. Each exhibits the vigorous exactness, and the mixture of realism and romanticism, for which Flaubert is renowned.
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France. Each exhibits the vigorous exactness, and the mixture of realism and romanticism, for which Flaubert is renowned.
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He sprang after it, unmindful of the brambles, and ferreted around the bushes with the litheness of a young dog.
The pigeon hung with broken wings in the branches of a privet hedge.
The persistence of its life irritated the boy. He began to strangle it, and its convulsions made his heart beat quicker, and filled him with a wild, tumultuous voluptuousness, the last throb of its heart making him feel like fainting.
At supper that night, his father declared that at his age a boy should begin to hunt; and he arose and brought forth an old writing-book which contained, in questions and answers, everything pertaining to the pastime. In it, a master showed a supposed pupil . . . Read More
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Parenthèse dans l’épuisant travail documentaire qu’exigeait l’écriture de son dernier roman, Bouvard et Pécuchet, Flaubert mit au point ses Trois Contes vers 1875. Ce livre, qu’il qualifie dans sa correspondance de petit volume « assez drôle », est sans aucun doute l’un des plus aboutis de cet immen
Flaubert, best known for Madame Bovary, wrote these three ‘long short stories’ as a package near the end of his career.
The first one, A Simple Heart, is the best and the best-known. A simple woman, a maid, has a life of tragedy. One person after another that she loved dies or leaves her. An early m
JOHN CLEESE: I would like to register a complaint about this parrot, what I read about not half an hour ago in a Flaubert short story.
MICHAEL PALIN: Oh yeah? What's wrong wiv it?
CLEESE: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my good man. It's representing the Holy Ghost, that's what's wrong with it.
The
If I could suddenly magically read French, A Simple Heart is the first thing I would read.
Until that happens, I have Robert Baldick’s translation. I’ve read it a few times over the years. What stood out to me on this rereading was Flaubert’s portrayal of Félicité’s deafness.
“The little circle of her