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A LONG, EARLY, AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY FLAUBERT TO HIS MUSE LOUISE COLET, WITH REVEALING REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND ART. On Louise Colet: "Louise Colet was truly Flaubert's muse and a midwife for his Emma Bovary. It is to her that the hermit of Croisset chronicled, in over a hundred letters, the progress of his first published novel: It is exclusively to Louise that he wrote his famous reflections about the craft of literature - prophetic passages that would become the most familiar credos of twentieth-century modernism. "Throughout the phase of their correspondence. Flaubert so often sought Louise's advice on details that her daughter and literary executor, Henriette Colet Bissieu, would later demand. that her mother's collaboration in Madame Bovary be officially acknowledged." (Francine du Plessix Gray, Rage & Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse, pp. 199-201.) The letter: Flaubert wrote wonderfully evocative letters and his correspondence as a whole has often been hailed as a literary masterpiece, holding a rightful place alongside his novels. Michael Dirda has noted that "the correspondence of Gustave Flaubert soars above all other works in setting forth the proper ideals and accompanying rigors of art", Enid Starkie thought that the letters "in the future, [would] become Flaubert's most popular and widely-read book, the one in which he has most fully distilled his personality and wisdom" and André Gide connected with the letters on such a personal level, claiming that "for more than five years his correspondence took the place of the Bible at my bedside. It was my reservoir of energy". (Dirda, Washington Post, "Flaubert on Travel, Sex, and Writing"; Starkie, Flaubert the Master; Gide, in Steegmuller, ed., The Letters of Gustave Flaubert). This letter embodies the elements that have made Flaubert's correspondence so inspirational and entertaining to generations of readers and writers: full of frank opinions on art and literature and current events. This is a rare letter from early in their relationship. At the time it was written - September 17, 1847 - Colet and Flaubert has only known each other for a little over a year (they met on July 28, 1846). Colet was a famous published author; Flaubert, however, was little known, still nine years away from the publication of Madame Bovary. The letter from translated from the original French, reads in full: Croisset, Friday Evening, 11 pm. I just now sent to Rouen for the package you addressed to me- it was a good thing you didn't put a claim check inside the package, it would probably have been opened and read and then. I would have had to endure being teased about it. I will read Mme de Praslin's letters. What little I know about them, they seem intriguing. One thing was striking, these letters reminded me at certain places of your style - you are going to laugh, but the resemblance, for whatever reason, strikes me as obviously correct. Although you have to believe that this comparison will go no further and that I will not murder you! But who knows? Anyway, it would be funny. He was, after all, a man of charm, this M. de Praslin. But he didn't like fat women. Tell me, so what were these details that were intentionally omitted in the press on this affair, and what was this liquid spread on the Duchess's sheets? In the letter addressed to Fougeres you mentioned some curious revelations by the school teacher - what are they? I browsed through Thoré's book, what nonsense! I consider myself happy to live far from these "expert" fellows! What misinformation! What a sham! What emptiness! I am tired of everything that's being said about art, beauty, ideas and Form. It's always the same song and what a song! I just keep going on, and I pity all these people and what's happening now. In truth, I actually spend my mornings with Aristophanes. I find there what is beautiful, brilliant and exuberant. But it is not decent, it is not moral, it's not even accep. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2402
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