In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak review – what Madame Bovary thought of Flaubert
This audacious portrait of the French author through the eyes of his women is Shafak’s love letter to literature in dark timesIn Frantumaglia, her collection of essays on writing and reading, Elena Ferrante writes that she has sometimes dismissed Gustave Flaubert as a “misogynist”, angered by his invention of as callous a mother as Emma Bovary. In other moods, however, she has wondered…
This audacious portrait of the French author through the eyes of his women is Shafak’s love letter to literature in dark timesIn Frantumaglia, her collection of essays on writing and reading, Elena Ferrante writes that she has sometimes dismissed Gustave Flaubert as a “misogynist”, angered by his invention of as callous a mother as Emma Bovary. In other moods, however, she has wondered…
