MADAME BOVARY
AN INFINITY OF PASSIONS
CAN FILL INTO A MINUTE
3 elements
Somexki Collection
1 photograph
Seroux
1 Collage
Alex Svi
1 question
The question
Where did this inadequacy of life
come from, this instantaneous decay
of the things on which it relied?
Later, with Walter Scott, she became enamored with historical things, dreaming of chests, guardrooms, and minstrels. She would have liked to live in some old manor house, like those chatelaines with long bodices, who, under the trefoil arches, spent their days, elbow on stone and chin in hand, watching a white-feathered rider galloping on a black horse from the countryside.
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
BOVARY
3 elements
Collection Somexki
2 photographs
Alex Svi
1 question
Collection Qwest
Emma Bovary
1 painting find in Buenos Aires
Portrait of Sir Walter Schott
Carrara Marble
The question
Why didn't you hold him back
with both hands, on both knees,
when he wanted to run away?
CULTURAL CONTEXT
Excerpt from Flaubert's novel
Charles's conversation was as flat as a sidewalk, and everyone's ideas paraded by, in their ordinary guise, without stirring any emotion, laughter, or reverie.
Human speech is like a cracked cauldron, where we beat out melodies to make bears dance, when we would rather soften the stars.
But her life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, a silent spider, spun its web in the shadows of every corner of her heart.
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