…George Sand. If you can read french, the Rouen collection is probably the most complete, but there are other french collections. If you're just looking to start with Flaubert in general you can start with Mme. Bovary, rightly regarded as one of the best novels ever. Flaubert's control over his sentences, the breathtaking style, is incredible to read.
…elaboration of complex ideas in a single sentence. In fiction, in particular, they can also function akin to a jumpcut in cinema, or like montage editing. Many of the incredible scenes in a book like Flaubert's Mme Bovary get their feel from the way he slams units of prose together with semicolons rather than the trudge of periods and short sentences. The same is true of Proust, or Nabokov, or Hemingway, who was way more…
…very much dated, and an example of that flippant iconoclasm of modern literary criticism, basically, of the hippies. Because, really, who is she to throw Flaubert so casually under the bus? (im joking) Mme bovary is perfect, in a way a classical music composition is perfect, it is the oppressive knowledge that perfection can be willed into the world and it's the artist who has the task to will it in the world,…
…The novelist recognizes that he is guilty of the sin of which he is accusing his mediator. The curse which Oedipus hurls at Others falls on his own head. This is the meaning of Flaubert's famous cry: "Mme Bovary, c'est moil" Flaubert first conceived Mme Bovary as that despicable Other whom he had sworn to deal with.
Mme. Bovary. First it just was an exercise to show to my wife how _descriptions_ are _action_. I was trying to improved her everyday writing, you know, memos from work, informal/formal letters. I'm reading French…
……乔治·桑。如果你懂法语，鲁昂版全集大概是最全的，不过还有其他法文版本。如果你只是想初步接触福楼拜，不妨从《包法利夫人》读起，它被公认为有史以来最伟大的小说之一绝非浪得虚名。福楼拜对句子的掌控力、那种令人屏息的文风，读起来实在太惊艳了。
…George Sand. If you can read french, the Rouen collection is probably the most complete, but there are other french collections. If you're just looking to start with Flaubert in general you can start with Mme. Bovary, rightly regarded as one of the best novels ever. Flaubert's control over his sentences, the breathtaking style, is incredible to read.
……在一句话里铺陈复杂的思想。尤其在小说中，它们的作用还可以类似于电影里的跳切（jumpcut），或者像蒙太奇剪辑。像福楼拜的《包法利夫人》这样的书里，许多精彩绝伦的场景之所以有那种感觉，正是因为他是用分号把一段段散文狠狠撞在一起，而不是靠句号和短句在那儿慢吞吞地拖沓推进。普鲁斯特也是如此，纳博科夫也是，还有海明威，他其实远比……
…elaboration of complex ideas in a single sentence. In fiction, in particular, they can also function akin to a jumpcut in cinema, or like montage editing. Many of the incredible scenes in a book like Flaubert's Mme Bovary get their feel from the way he slams units of prose together with semicolons rather than the trudge of periods and short sentences. The same is true of Proust, or Nabokov, or Hemingway, who was way more…
……非常过时了，简直就是现代文学批评里那种轻佻的破除偶像主义（iconoclasm）典型，说白了就是嬉皮士那套。因为说真的，她算哪根葱啊，凭什么这么轻描淡写地把福楼拜踩在脚下？（开个玩笑）《包法利夫人》是极其完美的，就像古典乐曲的完美一样，那是一种令人窒息的认知：完美是可以被硬生生创造到这个世界上的，而艺术家肩负的使命就是把它带到人间……
…very much dated, and an example of that flippant iconoclasm of modern literary criticism, basically, of the hippies. Because, really, who is she to throw Flaubert so casually under the bus? (im joking) Mme bovary is perfect, in a way a classical music composition is perfect, it is the oppressive knowledge that perfection can be willed into the world and it's the artist who has the task to will it in the world,…
……小说家意识到，自己犯下的正是他指控其中介者的罪行。俄狄浦斯掷向“他者”的诅咒，最终落到了他自己头上。这就是福楼拜那句名言的真意：“包法利夫人就是我！”福楼拜最初构思包法利夫人时，是将她视为自己誓要解决的那个可鄙的“他者”。
…The novelist recognizes that he is guilty of the sin of which he is accusing his mediator. The curse which Oedipus hurls at Others falls on his own head. This is the meaning of Flaubert's famous cry: "Mme Bovary, c'est moil" Flaubert first conceived Mme Bovary as that despicable Other whom he had sworn to deal with.
《包法利夫人》。最初这只是我为了向妻子演示“描写即行动”而做的一个练习。我当时是想帮她改进日常写作，比如工作 memo、非正式/正式信件之类的。我读的是法文……
Mme. Bovary. First it just was an exercise to show to my wife how _descriptions_ are _action_. I was trying to improved her everyday writing, you know, memos from work, informal/formal letters. I'm reading French…