#flaubert

[diana-andraste]

Le Serpent (Salammbô), Gabriel Ferrier, 1899

[dreamyhopes]

Hey guys? What level of parasocial is "buying a French literary classic because there's a pic of one of your favorite actors reading it?"

[academic-vampire]

“She only wanted to lean upon something rather more solid than love.”

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin, p.162)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

In Libro Veritas :: @InlibroV

Flaubert - "Read, do not dream."

[nnuulll]

"La culture consumériste est l’institution centrale de la rêverie dans le monde contemporain, et elle façonne la nouvelle structure psychique du moi, marquée par l’espoir." [...]

"L’imagination d’Emma [Bovary] et sa déception constituent autant de tentatives de remplir ce vide réel qui l’engloutit. Ce qui rend la modernité intolérable, c’est le fait qu’elle ouvre constamment des horizons de vie excitants et interdits, qu’elle boursoufle le moi, qu’elle aiguise nos attentes, pour finalement nous jeter sur des chemins de vie balisés par une quête de respectabilité creuse et banale."

Eva Illouz, Explosive modernité, nrf p. 97 & 122

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" The secret of being happy consists of knowing how to enjoy yourself - enjoy being at table, in bed, enjoy standing up, sitting down, enjoy the nearest ray of sunshine, the slightest bit of landscape: in other words, love everything. "

- Gustave Flaubert, Intimate Notebook

📷 mine

[engamesfilmdiary]

Madame Bovary

Claude Chabrol

1991

[unionizedwizard]

wait

have you actually heard of gustave flaubert before or do i sound insane (more.) than usual rn

(french*): yes (i read one or several of his books)

(french*): vaguely? (never read any)

(french*): no (can i study you.)

other: yes (i read one or several of his books) (PLEASE message me)

other: vaguely? (never read any)

other: no (understandable, carry on)

Voting ended onJun 4, 2025

*french or adjacent i.e belgian, swiss, québécois, etc