‘There are in me, literarily speaking, two distinct persons,” Gustave Flaubert wrote to his lover, the poet Louise Colet. One was “infatuated with bombast, lyricism, eagle flights, sonorities of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To Gustave Flaubert, experience remained the only religion worth muttering a prayer to and the sensual world the only temple worth ...

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IN his essay on Gustave Flaubert Mr. Henry James, Jr., states the undisputed fact that Madame Bovary, the author’s first novel, has remained altogether his best. As for Salammbô, La Tentation de Saint ...

There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...