A simple ambiguity, particularly, says to their experience of his audience
Henry James noticable it weak, when you find yourself reserving their bewilderment to own La Tentation de- saint Antoine
To own Flaubert, the brand new 19th 100 years is actually ‘l’H?enaurme au moment ou`ecle’. Which deformation of your own epithet e? norme admirably conveys just their ironical attitude for the misplaced self-trust and you may pretension of the many years, and also his honest enjoyment of one’s grotesque data just who, having your, embodied such quintessentially bourgeois characteristics. Once the novelist Milan Kundera create later on put it, in just limited recourse to hyperbole: ‘Flaubert found absurdity. Read more
