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Mentions on MR
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert on travel books (2018-12-12)

That is from his November 1866 letter to Hippolyte Taine, reproduced in the Francis Steegmuller collection .  Here is my recent post on why most travel books are not good enough.  Here is a 2006 MR post on which are the best travel books .

Madame Bovary
Lydia Davis’s translation of *Madame Bovary* (2010-10-28)

I never loved this book before (sadly I cannot do serious reading in French), but now I do.  Order it here .  Reviews — mostly raves — are here .  Right now Natasha is enjoying Davis's short fiction and I've ordered some of her other work as well.

Bouvard and Pécuchet
“Memory” (2009-04-18)

That is from his quite interesting Bouvard and Pecuchet .  This unfinished book is a parody of self-education and perhaps of gay marriage as well.

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