14 letters found
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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, ...
- 588 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 21 or Thursday, 22 March 1888.
- in note 7:
Maupassant quotes from Flaubert: ‘Talent is a matter of patience over time. It involves studying ev...
- in translation:
...r, more consoling nature, and explaining what Flaubert’s phrase might have meant, ‘talent is long...
- 625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
- in note 8:
...s 1880, pp. 41-57. The poem caused an uproar; Flaubert had to offer his pupil protection. This incide...
- in translation:
...ook, Des vers, poems dedicated to his master, Flaubert. There’s one, ‘Au bord de l’eau’, that...
- 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...
- 662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
- in note 5:
...upassant’s Des vers (1880) that he regarded Flaubert as his teacher; see letter 625, n. 8. For Zola...
- in translation:
... am not one of those people, but didn’t the Flauberts and Balzacs make the Zolas and Maupassants? S...
- 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, ...
- 691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
- in note 8:
The opening sentences of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet read: ‘Since the temperature was 33 degr...
- in translation:
...ulevard at the beginning of L’assommoir and Flaubert a corner of quai de la Villette in the summer ...
- 753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.
- in note 7:
Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô (1863) takes place in ancient Carthage. It is the story of re...
- in translation:
Here is this very, very, very old epitaph, let’s say from the time of Flaubert’s Salammbô:
- 764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889.
- in note 8:
For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.
- in translation:
...d père Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide, nor Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet. These are books from...
- 765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
- in note 6:
For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.
- 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
- in note 3:
For Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, see letter 669, n. 9.
- 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...
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- 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...
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French writer
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