Flaubert, Gustave - Lewis J. Overaker (essay date winter 2001)
Lewis J. Overaker (essay date winter 2001)
SOURCE: Overaker, Lewis J. “Manifestations of the Holy Ghost in Flaubert's ‘Un Coeur simple.’” Renascence 53, no. 2 (winter 2001): 119-48.
[In the following essay, Overaker suggests that in Flaubert's story “Un Coeur simple,” through the character of Félicité and the parrot named Loulou, one is witness “to a serious and triumphant spiritual journey in which the workings of the Holy Ghost are disclosed.”]
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
—1 Corinthians 6.19-201
The variously interpreted character of Félicité continues to inspire—and to frustrate—the many readers of Flaubert's popular story, most of whom remain puzzled by what seems like a jarring incongruity in the fundamental...
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