The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
Translated by Aimée L. (Aimée Leffingwell) McKenzie
Two of the 19th century's most luminous literary minds, in intimate conversation across twelve years. George Sand and Gustave Flaubert - she the indomitable novelist who rewrote the rules of French literature, he the meticulous stylist behind Madame Bovary - exchanged letters that reveal far more than mere correspondence. These pages holdArguments about art and morality, confessions of loneliness, witty gossip about mutual acquaintances, and the slow-building warmth of a friendship that transcended their profound differences. Sand, with her maternal warmth and philosophical optimism, challenged the cynic in Flaubert; he, in turn, offered her the rigorous intellectual sparring she craved. Their letters span the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and reading them feels less like scholarship than like listening in on a secret...
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“...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre."(I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)””
— George Sand
“Je ne suis pas plus moderne qu'ancien, pas plus Français que Chinois, et l'idée de la patrie c'est-à-dire l'obligation où l'on est de vivre sur un coin de terre marqué en rouge ou en bleu sur la carte et de détester les autres coins en vert ou en noir m'a paru toujours étroite, bornée et d'une stupidité féroce.””
— George Sand
“Il faut mettre son cœur dans l'art, son esprit dans le commun du monde, son corps où il se trouve bien, sa bourse dans sa poche, son espoir nulle part.””
— George Sand
“you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing!””
— George Sand
“The only way not to be unhappy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything else as nothing.””
— George Sand
“A hundred times in life," she declares, "the good that one does seems to serve no immediate purpose; yet it maintains in one way and another the tradition of well wishing and well doing, without which all would perish.””
— George Sand
“Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to my shell. I hate the crowd, the herd. It seems to me always atrociously stupid or vile.””
— George Sand
“When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?””
— George Sand
“Ti se nadaš da čuješ nešto više o Viktoru Igou. Šta mogu da ti o njemu kažem ? To je čovek kao i svaki drugi, sa dosta ružnim licem i dosta prostom spoljašnjošću. Ima izvaredne zube i veličanstveno čelo, bez obrva, bez trepavica. Malo govori, izgleda da pazi na sebe i da neće da govori više nego što treba; vrlo je učtiv i pomalo usiljen. Veoma mi se sviđa zvuk njegovog glasa. Imao sam uživanje da ga posmatram izbliza; gledao sam ga sa čuđenjem, kao neku kasicu u kojoj bi se nalazili milioni i kraljevski dijamanti, razmišljajući o svemu što je izišlo iz tog čoveka, koji je tada sedeo pored mene na jednoj maloj stolici, i stalno upirući oči u njegovu desnu ruku, koja je napisala toliko lepih stvari. A to je, međutim, bio čovek zbog koga mi je najviše zakucalo srce otkad sam na svetu, i možda čovek koga sam najviše voleo od svih onih koje ne poznajem. Govorilo se o pogubljenjima, o osvetama, o lopovima, itd. Taj veliki čovek i ja upravo smo najviše razgovarali; ne sećam se više da li sam rekao pametne stvari ili glupe, ali sam ih rekao prilično mnogo. – Sestri, Pariz januara 1843.””
— George Sand
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