Have you ever heard of Gustave Flaubert?

[Julie4]

"He had heard these things so many times that they had nothing original for him. Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, revealed the naked, eternal monotony of passion, which always has the same forms and the same language. This man, so full of practical sense, did not distinguish the dissimilarity of feelings under the similarity of expressions. Because libertine or venal lips had murmured similar phrases to him, he scarcely believed in the candor of these; one had to discount, he thought, exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections: as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow through the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of their needs, or their conceptions, or their pains, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we would like to move the stars to pity."

[OddBeMe]

I had to wiki him to make sure it was the same guy it thought. I credit him with toning down Dickensian novels. Novel text should “Present everywhere but invisible…” something like that. Which I very much admired.

Dickens three page paragraphs were a bore.

[abc3643]

He is famous for having written Madame Bouvery.

[abc3643]

Bovary.

[Julie4]

Exactly. The excerpt I shared comes from this book lol

[4ngelic]

oui c'est un écrivain francais super célèbre du 19ème siècle, le fondateur du mouvement des 'romantiques' je crois? on l'a vu au lycée. J'ai du lire madame bovary en 2nde ou première je sais plus

[Anonymous]

Everyone has. We have to read Madam Bovary in school.

[RavVid]

No. I need to think about that writing quite a bit.

[AviatorTom]

I vaguely remember the name... French philosopher?

[Iron_Man]

Swede?

[Julie4]

No, French lol

[Iron_Man]

that’s my grandfather’s name

[Julie4]

Flaubert?

[Iron_Man]

Gustave

[Iron_Man]

Did you get any tickets yet for the Olympics?