The author’s big mistake Aug 14, 2009
In a nutshell, Hari accuses Bernstein of feasting on the Orientalist delights of Western sex travelers like Gustave Flaubert and the explorer Richard Burton, while refusing to acknowledge that they were little more than glorified rapists. How is having sex with slaves or people who are terrorized by your countrymen, or who are sunk in poverty created by a long colonial rape, simply doing what they were invited to. (Boston Globe)
The Birth, and Death, of the Asian Babe Jun 30, 2009
Bernstein focuses on two examples of Western men who dived into this new freedom, believing it superior to the muffling back home: Gustave Flaubert, the extraordinary French novelist, and Richard Burton, the British explorer. They considered the East to be filled with sexual artists who had perfected one of life's great pleasures. (Slate)
Television Teens and Sexual Relatio... Mar 12, 2009
Gustave Flaubert wrote the nineteenth-century novel Madame Bovary to exhibit how fantasy romantic novels caused young girls to sometimes have dangerous ideas about romance and reality. Modern teen dramas, without balancing the debate, show teens as regularly finding true love in high school, having adult relationships, and finding joy in teen parenthood. (Suite101.com)
Poll reveals UK's reading secrets Mar 6, 2009
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16%) 6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15%) 7. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Most Britons have lied about the books they read Mar 5, 2009
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16). 6. (Yahoo News)
Yale exhibit shows Picasso's work as a dialogue with his friends, peers Feb 22, 2009
who danced before Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist, was a favorite in the late 19th century, cropping up in the writings of Gustave Flaubert and Oscar Wilde, the art of Aubrey Beardsley and Gustave Moreau, and various operas and ballets. Apollinaire, however, was not a 19th-century man. (Boston Globe)
Retrace explorers routes Feb 14, 2009
Another sentimental journey is to follow in the footsteps of the young, unpublished Gustave Flaubert and head to Egypt, where he traveled the Nile River. Today, the Oberoi Zahra is the Niles main luxury cruiser and features floor-to-ceiling windows and private dockings in select cities along the way. (MSNBC -- Travel)
