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the first perfect novel ever written?
the first perfect novel ever written?
July 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
the first perfect novel ever written?
the first perfect novel ever written?
Tigrou et moi, à Commes, en lisant Madame Bovary.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Tigrou et moi, à Commes, en lisant Madame Bovary.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#flauberttogether Sorry, gang! I couldn’t stop.
August 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#flauberttogether Sorry, gang! I couldn’t stop.
Emma meets with the priest :
“Ah!” said Emma. “It isn’t earthly remedies that I need.”
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2.6
Illustration by Malcolm Liepke
“Ah!” said Emma. “It isn’t earthly remedies that I need.”
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2.6
Illustration by Malcolm Liepke
July 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Emma meets with the priest :
“Ah!” said Emma. “It isn’t earthly remedies that I need.”
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2.6
Illustration by Malcolm Liepke
“Ah!” said Emma. “It isn’t earthly remedies that I need.”
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2.6
Illustration by Malcolm Liepke
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I love the dust jacket of my copy of Madame Bovary…both inside and outside.
I love the dust jacket of my copy of Madame Bovary…both inside and outside.
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I love the dust jacket of my copy of Madame Bovary…both inside and outside.
I love the dust jacket of my copy of Madame Bovary…both inside and outside.
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#NYRBWomen25 “I’d brought four copies of Flaubert‘s novel to the hospital: the French original, the English translation, and two Chinese translations. […] the most profound function of Flaubert’s‘s use of italics is to stealthily shift the narrator’s role without relying on (1/2)
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A post swim breakfast at Midnight Oil. With Flaubert and the NYT crossword. A Thursday tradition.
A post swim breakfast at Midnight Oil. With Flaubert and the NYT crossword. A Thursday tradition.
July 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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A post swim breakfast at Midnight Oil. With Flaubert and the NYT crossword. A Thursday tradition.
A post swim breakfast at Midnight Oil. With Flaubert and the NYT crossword. A Thursday tradition.
"Was it her way of covering her tracks more thoroughly? Or was it a kind of voluptuous stoicism--a deliberate, deeper savoring of the bitterness of everything she was about to abandon? ...she was living as though immersed in advance in her future happiness."
(II.12) - Steegmuller #FlauberTogether
(II.12) - Steegmuller #FlauberTogether
August 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Another reason to visit Rouen!! #FlaubertTogether
August 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another reason to visit Rouen!! #FlaubertTogether
Oh, to have “a trim little foot.”
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July 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Oh, to have “a trim little foot.”
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July 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
for me, davis. i've always loved the word confection.
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"From that moment on, her life was no more than a confection of lies in which she wrapped her love, as though in veils, to hide it."
(III.5) - Davis
"From that moment on, her life was no more than a confection of lies in which she wrapped her love, as though in veils, to hide it."
(III.5) - Davis
August 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
for me, davis. i've always loved the word confection.
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“Oh! You’re slandering yourself,” said Emma.
“No, no, my reputation’s execrable, I assure you.” (Rodolphe)
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Madame Bovary 2.8
“No, no, my reputation’s execrable, I assure you.” (Rodolphe)
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Madame Bovary 2.8
August 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Oh! You’re slandering yourself,” said Emma.
“No, no, my reputation’s execrable, I assure you.” (Rodolphe)
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Madame Bovary 2.8
“No, no, my reputation’s execrable, I assure you.” (Rodolphe)
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Madame Bovary 2.8
not too late to join in!
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week 2 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
July 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
not too late to join in!
week 2 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
week 2 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.
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Madame Bovary 2.8
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Madame Bovary 2.8
July 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.
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Madame Bovary 2.8
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Madame Bovary 2.8
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léon is back!!!
léon is back!!!
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
week 5 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
léon is back!!!
léon is back!!!
Do you mind if I quote in French 💖 #flauberttogether reader ?
July 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Do you mind if I quote in French 💖 #flauberttogether reader ?
week 4 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
we'll finish part II and start part III
we'll finish part II and start part III
August 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
week 4 of #flauberttogether starts tomorrow!
we'll finish part II and start part III
we'll finish part II and start part III
“What’s more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp and a book, listening to the wind beating against the windows . . . ?” (Leon)
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Madame Bovary 2.2
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Madame Bovary 2.2
July 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“What’s more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp and a book, listening to the wind beating against the windows . . . ?” (Leon)
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Madame Bovary 2.2
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Madame Bovary 2.2
And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture “—words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
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1.5
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1.5
July 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture “—words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
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1.5
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1.5
I think ricky gervais would play a great verger.
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The verger at the cathedral is so funny.
‘The verger was taken aback, mystified by such premature munificence: the visitor still had so much to see! … “Monsieur! The steeple! The steeple!”’ lol
As I was reading, I tried to cast him in my head. Martin Short, maybe?
The verger at the cathedral is so funny.
‘The verger was taken aback, mystified by such premature munificence: the visitor still had so much to see! … “Monsieur! The steeple! The steeple!”’ lol
As I was reading, I tried to cast him in my head. Martin Short, maybe?
August 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I think ricky gervais would play a great verger.
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a gaze drowned in boredom. we've all been there.
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Emma Rouault before she marries Bovary: “sometimes half closing her lids, her gaze drowned in boredom, her thoughts wandering.” (Davis, pg 20)
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
July 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
a gaze drowned in boredom. we've all been there.
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