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I had read letters from Flo Baird to his great friend Marie Colette, I guess her name was, and he was talking about the difficulty faced with Madame Bovary, which is that it's about a woman facing boredom in a provincial town.
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Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert's theory; he pronounced L'Education Sentimentale "elaborately and massively dreary"; and he briefly dismissed Salammbo as an accomplished work of erudition.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921
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Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert's theory; he pronounced L'Education
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert’s theory; he pronounced
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Favorite Books Of 2010: Jacki Lyden Chooses A New 'Madame Bovary'
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Flaubert is another writer from an earlier age whose work should be read by everyone, and those who think that the purple prose of a Dickens is nineteenth century writing might get a shock when faced with the clarity of the language in Madame Bovary.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011
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New editions of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu have pushed overworked translators – a shy breed – into the spotlight.
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In "Madame Bovary," boredom—or rather, ennui—is a cultural disease, of which Emma's affairs are a symptom.
A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011
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One of my most cherished possessions is my grandmother's red leather-bound copy of Madame Bovary.
Danny Miller: Celebrate World Read Aloud Day! Danny Miller 2011
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One of my most cherished possessions is my grandmother's red leather-bound copy of Madame Bovary.
Danny Miller: Celebrate World Read Aloud Day! Danny Miller 2011
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