Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Everyman, Rabbiting, Gustave Flaubert
4 Mar 2016
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France hosted many great writers this century. Put on trial for writing madame bovary. Always spending the money he was going to make on the next novel. Fascinated with money, both earning it and losing it. He realized that you make it if you have money, this was new to the century. Re-used characters from one novel to another, like his own world. Of the social world in 19th century france. Said realism is a mirror being carried down the street. Realistic art mirrors back our daily world. Realism was selective, deciding what details matter. Seen as more scientific in its approach. Still has an ideological grid to its plot. Reflecting the world not just how it is, but how it could/should be. Stunningly mediocre, on the average, daily life. The reaction of a world of mediocrity. We dwell in literature as much as in real world. He is not evil; he is just boring, and mediocre.
