Comments on: Adventures on the Nile with Gustave and Florence

By: solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:49:09 +0000

I remember the later conversation now. Was Flaubert profoundly unhappy? Is that quoted somewhere? Julian Barnes in Flaubert’s Parrot says he was a “great weeper”; I like to imagine it was him being voluptuous rather than unhappy.

By: dafna

dafna — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:42:19 +0000

i remember this post, i commented in my head ;)

flaubert’s “november” was written after this trip and before bovary… i gave what you called a “pithy review” of the book elsewhere.

“november” has many of the things you would find in his notes; sex, prostitutes, loss of his virginity, ennui, morbid fascination with decay.

is there any reason to believe flaubert moved past “eloquently self-aware and profoundly unhappy”?

By: solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:48:18 +0000

haha, I dare you to use it. It even rhymes almost. Mmm, maybe Sattin first cos F’s Egyptian trip pre-dates Madame B. So you’d be chronological. BTW, just started Stones from the River. Great.

By: Thomas Stazyk

Thomas Stazyk — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:14:56 +0000

Thanks! I’ve put Sattin’s book on my list–sounds fascinating. I don’t know whether to reread Madame B before or after I read Sattin. What do you think?

Anyway, thanks to your post, I now have a title in search of a story–I can’t wait to write the story with the title “Bronze Arse in a Leperhouse.”