14 letters found

1. 662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.

   in translation:

   ... am not one of those people, but didn’t the Flauberts and Balzacs make the Zolas and Maupassants? S...

   in note 5:

   ...upassant’s Des vers (1880) that he regarded Flaubert as his teacher; see letter 625, n. 8. For Zola...

2. 588 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 21 or Thursday, 22 March 1888.

   in translation:

   ...r, more consoling nature, and explaining what Flaubert’s phrase might have meant, ‘talent is long...

   in note 7:

   Maupassant quotes from Flaubert: ‘Talent is a matter of patience over time. It involves studying ev...

3. 753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.

   in translation:

   Here is this very, very, very old epitaph, let’s say from the time of Flaubert’s Salammbô:

   in note 7:

   Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô (1863) takes place in ancient Carthage. It is the story of re...

4. 764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.

   in translation:

   ...d père Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide, nor Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet. These are books from...

   in note 8:

   For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.

5. 691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.

   in translation:

   ...ulevard at the beginning of L’assommoir and Flaubert a corner of quai de la Villette in the summer ...

   in note 8:

   The opening sentences of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet read: ‘Since the temperature was 33 degr...

6. 456 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884.

   in note 7:

   In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province (1857) the provincial doctor Charles Bovary...

7. 457 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884.

   in note 4:

   See for the ‘first Madame Bovary’ in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province: letter 456, ...

8. 660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.

   in note 14:

   ...dy says that the models for Bongrand were Gustave Flaubert, Charles-François Daubigny, Gustave Courb...

9. 669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.

   in note 9:

   Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881), which was published posthumously, ...

10. 625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.

    in translation:

    ...ook, Des vers, poems dedicated to his master, Flaubert. There’s one, ‘Au bord de l’eau’, that...

    in note 8:

    ...s 1880, pp. 41-57. The poem caused an uproar; Flaubert had to offer his pupil protection. This incide...

11. 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.

    in translation:

    The work of the French naturalists Zola, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, De Goncourt, Richepin, Daudet, ...

12. 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.

    in note 6:

    For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.

13. 804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.

    in translation:

    ...n unbounded admiration for De Goncourt, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans. But as regards yourself...

14. 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.

    in note 3:

    For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.

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1. Chronology

   in 1889:

   #Repeatedly refers to Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet and Voltaire’s Candide (e.g. 669,...

   in 1887:

   ...tant: Zola (La joie de vivre, L’assommoir), Flaubert, Maupassant (Bel-ami), the Goncourts (Germinie...