Flaubert, according to Du Camp, was a miserable traveller, seldom likely to show enthusiasm for the things he saw and often refusing to leave his room to visit historical sites or monuments.

Book of a lifetime: Letters by Gustave Flaubert From The Independent archive: Ian Sansom on the inspiring correspondence of a writer’s writer Friday 01 April 2022 21:30 BST 0 Comments ...

Julian Barnes’s slim, grim new novel, “The Only Story,” will remind fans of “A Sense of an Ending,” which won the Booker Prize in 2011. Like that elegiac novel, his new book concerns an ...

Even Flaubert’s last book, “Bouvard and Pécuchet,” reads like a secular parody of the saint’s life. We know that Nabokov was rereading Flaubert when he was writing “The Tragedy of ...

What leaves me reeling with each re-reading (and Adam Thorpe's new translation is, pardon the pun, to die for) is the use of language. There can be no doubt as to the reason for Flaubert's brain ...

Carmel Bird is the Australian author of 30 books, including novels, collections of short stories and essays, and manuals on the art of writing. Her 10th novel, Family Skeleton (UWAP), is a dark ...