Flaubert : Gustave (1821-80), French novelist, a pioneer of the Realist school of French literature.
... the students can learn what literature is. The most important thing to be taken into consideration when selecting books, is the quality of the language and style, 2 something "splendid" as in Flaubert. No translations, or very few, and only if they are of famous works—one cannot say "masterpieces" because there are so few of them! 3 ( About the bad books which are to be withdrawn from the ...
... reverence. My series seems to make you smile and laugh intimately at the same time that it brings to your eyes the vision of an ideal distance where one's finest hopes are fulfilled. A stylist like Flaubert would have been thrilled at your mot juste, though I doubt if he could have entered, for all his insight into complex character, the inner world of Aurobindonian reveries and realities in which ...
... what its substance—or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French literature, Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name others, but especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's languages—there is no other to match it. Matthew Arnold once wrote ...
... and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side ...
... matter what its substance —or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French Literature Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name many more, especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's languages—there is no other to match it.... All prose of other languages ...
... in artistic approach and technique, the writers and poets in their turn were revolutionizing literature. The first half of the nineteenth century was the era of Alexandre Dumas, of Victor Hugo and Flaubert; the second half was dominated by Guy de Maupassant, Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, Emile Zola, famed for his I accuse letter—to name but a few. They Page 21 ...
... saying, "Such people are not very careful, they may misspell or even make mistakes in grammar, but their rushing inspiration carries them on to great results." Among the perfectionists she listed Flaubert: "He does not produce in such abundance but the little he writes is flawlessly done." Perhaps among writers of her own day she admired Anatole France the most. His style struck her as the very ...
... former do not always care to produce Page 43 perfect pieces while the latter are bent on perfection. As the highest examples of the two categories she mentioned Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert. Radhananda was multilingual and wrote English poems no less than French and Tamil ones. But a certain composition in English attributed to him in Champaklal's Treasures and reproduced ...
... matter what its substance—or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French literature, Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name others, especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's languages—there is no other to match it. Matthew Arnold once wrote a ...
... here were written between 1933 and 1949—most of them between 1933 and 1935. × A novel by Gustave Flaubert. ...
... the, 286 England, 205, 253, 284 Epicurus, 108, 1O9n Euclid, 107 Euripides, 73, 86 Europe, 58, 60, 199, 243, 253, 273, 284-5, 289 FAKIRS, 221, 223 Fascism, 253, 262 Flaubert, 88 France, 66, 193, 198, 205, 253, 284, 298 Francisco, 173-4 French Revolution, 103, 266, 274 Freud, Sigmund, 126 GANDHARVAS,26 Gargi, 5-6 Germany, 253 Ghcse, Prof. Manmohan ...
... initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the. very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse ...
... that the students can learn what literature is. The most important thing to be taken into consideration when selecting books, is the quality of the language and style, something ‘splendid’ as in Flaubert. It is now that I understand how right from our childhood the Mother guided us without our knowing it: what books to read, how to stay away from life’s errors and pitfalls, how to seek Her protection ...
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