tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post886190438874821004..comments2023-08-19T14:12:52.220+02:00Comments on Reflection & Inquiries: In the peninsula of Bithynia…Geoffrey Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-72367403694310460162011-04-16T10:24:56.673+02:002011-04-16T10:24:56.673+02:00You remember Salammbô more clearly than I. I'l...You remember Salammbô more clearly than I. I'll have to reread it, along with other things by Flaubert. When I reread Mme Bovary recently, it was a strangely refreshing experience, stirring shadows in my memory from when I read an abridged version in my high school French course. It wa a struggle the first time, delicious the second. I still haven't read L'Éducation sentimentale, though I have it on my shelves.Geoffrey Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-1940064895592758742011-04-15T20:39:29.399+02:002011-04-15T20:39:29.399+02:00Jeez, I hardly have ever heard of anyone else who ...Jeez, I hardly have ever heard of anyone else who has read Salammbô. I recommended it to my hair cutter who read A Gift for the Sultan and is interested in Hannibal, but she hasn’t done it yet. I liked it al lot. How evocative it is of a distant, half imaginary time and place! What research! (Though succeeding archeology disabled some of it.) The battlefield scenes are harrowing, especially the wounded elephants. Hard French from the viewpoint of vocabulary. Have you read his Herodias? When I was about 14 I read Théophile Gautier’s La toison d'or, a rather precious tale of decadent, idle rich, mid-century youth, that deeply colored my idea of what romance should be for several years. Years later, after I was married and settled down, I read L'Éducation sentimentale and thought that’s what I should have read when I was 14.Dirk van Nouhuyshttp://www.wandd.comnoreply@blogger.com