Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A.S. "your G", [Croisset]... - Lot 147 - Ader

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Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A.S. "your G", [Croisset]... - Lot 147 - Ader
Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A.S. "your G", [Croisset] noon ["Thursday, November 3, 1853"], to Louise Colet; 3 and a quarter pages in-8 (date in L. Colet's hand). On the progress of Madame Bovary. Flaubert shows some jealousy towards Victor Hugo: "What a gallant crocodile! I begin to be worried. Fortunately the Ocean separates us! Badinguet reassures me"... Then he talks about his work on Madame Bovary: "I'm redoing, and planing my comices that I leave at their point. Since Monday I think I have given them a lot of movement, and I am perhaps not far from the effect. But what tortures this rascal of passage will have made me undergo! I make sacrifices of detail which make me cry. But finally it is necessary! When you love style too much, you risk losing sight of the very purpose of what you are writing! - And then the transitions, the follow-up, what a mess! After reproaching Louise for using it too lightly with Leconte de Lisle, "a man of such value," Flaubert talks to her about their correspondence: "You say, dear Louise, that my letters are for you a Penelope's canvas. I assure you also that yours in this regard sometimes cause me great astonishment. One day I see you very happy with me. Then the next day, it's something else. But it seems to me that I am always the same. These differences that you find in my letters only come from the different moods in which you read them. One expands your heart, the other darkens it, so that I am often surprised by your joy or your sadness. I do not vary, however, in my regard for you, and my affection for you is always fixed. He goes to Rouen for a "farewell and remembrance dinner" with Louis Bouilhet... He wants "to give a figure to my comices before the departure of B."... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. II, p. 461.
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