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...What tends to get overlooked…is world literature: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Proust,” he says...
...travel to France for the reasons that have impelled Americans since 1776: for a sentimental education, a cultural polish, for sexual or artistic or racial freedom, to perfect the language of Moliere, Flaubert and Proust. He went because there was as yet no independent America and because it was painfully clear to the Continental Congress that without the assistance of a European power, there would not be. The colonies had no munitions, no money and no credit but had resolved all the same to battle the mother country. There was something of a difference between declaring independence and achieving...
...critic James Wood has pointed out that the decline of the Bible's authority in the 19th century coincided with the rise of the modern novel. Elie reminds a wistful 21st century reader how urgently books used to matter. Books--by Dante, Blake, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Jacques Maritain, Etienne-Henry Gilson and hundreds of others--served as spiritual guides for Elie's quartet in their journeys, shaping them in a life-or-death way that one senses would not be possible...
...words, they begin behaving like the college freshmen they would have been were it not for the Cultural Revolution. (Good thing they didn't come across any works by Schopenhauer.) Luo and his seamstress accelerate from a shy, teenage crush to a sensual coupling ripped from the pages of Flaubert. Luo even uses the novels to tutor her, inadvertently opening the innocent girl's eyes to the possibility of a life outside her village?one that doesn't necessarily include the boys...
Schor focused on the works of Flaubert, Zola and other 19th-century French writers. But her academic work was “eclectic” by her own description; Schor’s intellectual interests ranged from Salvador Dali to George Sand...