Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Long live Loulou! Julian Barnes wrote a novel called Flaubert's Parrot about a century after Flaubert wrote about Félicité's parrot.
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It's been claimed that Flaubert is the originator of the modern novel. Whatever, it's not like he invented the toaster strudel or anything.
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Flaubert was heavily influenced by Romanticism, but ended up being a founding father of Realism. Funny how things work out, isn't it?
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Friedrich Nietzsche had a bone to pick with Flaubert for writing while sitting because, as you know, any respectable author writes on horseback.
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