"In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to……" — Michael Dirda
"In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life."
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10 Quotes by Michael Dirda
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the…
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Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living…
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair…
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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap…
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the…
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