This author of the short story "Herodias" claimed to have read fifteen hundred books in his last decade to mimic the doomed intellectual ambitions of his clerks Bouvard and Pecuchet.
This author of the short story "Herodias" claimed to have read fifteen hundred books in his last decade to mimic the doomed intellectual ambitions of his clerks Bouvard and Pecuchet. The Egyptian dancer Kuchuk Hanem was the model for his Carthaginian romance Salammbo, but he's more famous for writing of the ineffectual foot surgery made by Charles, which sets off his wife's affairs. For 10 points, name this man who depicted Frederic Moreau's Sentimental Education and wrote about the infidelities of Emma in Madame Bovary.
This author of the short story "Herodias" claimed to have read fifteen hundred books in his last decade to mimic the doomed intellectual ambitions of his clerks Bouvard and Pecuchet.
Gustave {Flaubert}