One of Those Headgears of Composite Order (Gustave Flaubert‘s

One of Those Headgears of Composite Order (Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary)

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The boys are back at full strength this week as they discuss a favorite of all of theirs, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. They spend some time luxuriating in Flaubert's prose, and discussing the book as a fountainhead of numerous literary streams. They also talk about imitation, ascetic mysticism, and stultifying bourgeois life. Theme music: "Shostakovich," by Mucca Pazza.

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