I decided to stick with the subject of location for my post on part II of Madame Bovary. I like concentrating on something like that when I haven’t actually finished a book yet, and my previous notice of place in the novel was reinforced right on the first page of the second section, where [...]
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Apologies to the lovely and forgiving Frances for my lateness in posting on part one of Madame Bovary. Now I can lift my embargo on reading everyone else’s wonderful posts and get up to speed with the readalong! Lydia Davis’s introduction to her new translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary confirmed a few of the [...] No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon—or really, shouldn’t it be “No Tomorrow,” as this is more a short story than anything else—is a small, fine thing, not unlike the figures that grace its cover in the new NYRB edition.* The 1777 erotic tale is clear and precise without being explicit or coarse. It is not [...] |
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