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The cracked kettle of Flaubert.(Flaubert: A Biography)(Book review)
From: New Criterion
Date: 20060501
Author:Ormsby, Eric
In the summer of 1930, Willa Cather chanced to form a brief friendship with an elderly lady at the Grand Hotel d'Aix in Aixles-Bains. As they chatted, Cather realized that her companion was Caroline Commanville, Flaubert's beloved niece, then in her eighties. At one of their meetings, the novelist mentioned how much she admired "the splendid final sentence of Herodias" which Caroline then recited from memory, "Comme elle etait tres lourde, ils la portaient al-ter-na-tive-ment," drawing out that final adverb which, in Cather's words, "is so suggestive of the hurrying footsteps of ...
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