Michael Dirda Quotes

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.

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

Michael Dirda Quotes: In Madame Bovary Flaubert Never Allows Anything To Go On Too Long; He Can Suggest Years Of Boredom In A

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