‘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 ...

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The wind is warm as it rustles the great bank of yellow reeds on the riverside. They susurrate, whispering to each other, nodding and weaving their delicate heads together like lovers. The breeze ...

These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the “Couples Therapy”-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above. By Sadie ...

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT was a very unusual man. The French are of the opinion that he was a genius. If I were pressed to say what genius this twentieth century of ours has produced, I think that Albert ...

The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at a London university, and I had expected better results. The students either hated it or found it “boring,” and ...

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 ...

NOT long ago, AN there appeared in new translations three works by Gustave Flaubert—a volume of “Selected Letter,” edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller (Farrar, Straus & Young); his last, ...