Flaubert, Gustave - Nicholas Cronk (essay date fall‐winter 1995-96)
Nicholas Cronk (essay date fall‐winter 1995-96)
SOURCE: Cronk, Nicholas. “Reading ‘Un Coeur Simple’: The Pleasure of the Intertext.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 24, nos. 1-2 (fall‐winter 1995-96): 154-61.
[In the following essay, Cronk explores the function of the allusions associated with the names of the children, Paul and Virginie, in Flaubert's tale “Un Coeur simple.”]
So, they took the curator to where they kept the reserve collection. You want a parrot? they said. Then we go to the section of the birds. They opened the door, and they saw in front of them … fifty parrots. “Une cinquantaine de perroquets!”
———Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Flaubert's use of Paul et Virginie as an element in the structure of “Un Cœur simple” is well known. The names of Mme Aubain's children, Paul and Virginie, are explicit pointers to a wide range of...
[The entire page is 4933 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
