Flaubert

Famous quotes containing the word flaubert:

“The future is the worst thing about the present.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“Why juggle with the term “bourgeois” in regard to Flaubert? You know quite well that in Flaubert’s sense it was not a class category. In other words, Flaubert in the eyes of Marx was a bourgeois in the Marxist sense, while Marx in Flaubert’s eyes was a bourgeois in a Flaubertian sense.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)