Flaubert, Balzac, Konigsberg, Oates

[August1991]

Flaubert famously re-read, corrected, rewrote. He never finished Madame Bovary.

Woody Allen famously never watched his movies.

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Balzac pissed text. Like Oates, he described an era. 

[Michael Hardner]

13 hours ago, August1991 said:

Flaubert famously re-read, corrected, rewrote. He never finished Madame Bovary.

Woody Allen famously never watched his movies.

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Balzac pissed text. Like Oates, he described an era. 

Which Oates?

French, Russian, American literature.

African Art and Music.

Asian Philosophy.

It belongs to all of us.

[herbie]

Was Madame Bovary one of the Two Fat Ladies?
And who was Ballsack? Was he from the Russian revolution era during the struggles between the Ballsheviks and the Menstruviks?

Johnny McWackle wants to know.

[August1991]

On 12/26/2025 at 8:57 AM, Michael Hardner said:

Which Oates?

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Joyce Carol Oates. Like Balzac, Sidney Sheldon, Dickens, she supposedly described an era. 

Unlike Balzac and Dickens, I managed to read only one Sheldon or Oates novel.

[August1991]

On 12/27/2025 at 4:25 PM, herbie said:

Was Madame Bovary one of the Two Fat Ladies?

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No. Somerset Maugham wrote Three Fat Women. Google it.

[herbie]

Right that was Madame Bovine

[August1991]

On 1/27/2026 at 3:56 PM, herbie said:

Right that was Madame Bovine

Madame Bovary.

Flaubert was describing what we now call "Karen".

 

 

[August1991]

Here's my point:

a) it is better to obsess and correct

b) it is better to move on