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SAND George (1804-1876).
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SAND George (1804-1876).
L.A.S. "G. Sand", [Nohant] 30 November [1869], to Gustave
FLAUBERT| 3 pages in-8 in his cipher.
Beautiful letter about L'Éducation sentimentale which she has just reread.
"Dear friend of my heart, I wanted to reread your book and my daughter-in-law has read it too, and some of my young people, all bona fide first-time readers - and no fools at all. We are all of the same opinion that it is a beautiful book, of the strength of Balzac's best, and more real, that is, more faithful to the truth from one end to the other. It takes the great art, the exquisite form and the severity of your work to do without the flowers of fantasy. Yet you throw poetry into your painting, whether your characters understand it or not. Rosanette at Fontainebleau does not know what grass she is walking on, and she is poetic all the same.
All this is from a master and your place is well and truly conquered for ever. So live quietly as much as possible so as to last a long time and produce a lot.
I saw two bits of an article which did not seem to me to be in revolt against your success, but I hardly know what is going on, politics seems to me to absorb everything. Keep me posted. If you were not given justice I would get angry and say what I think, that's my right. [We send you our praise and our love.
She signs: "your old troubadour G. Sand".
Correspondence, t. XXI, p. 718.
L.A.S. "G. Sand", [Nohant] 30 November [1869], to Gustave
FLAUBERT| 3 pages in-8 in his cipher.
Beautiful letter about L'Éducation sentimentale which she has just reread.
"Dear friend of my heart, I wanted to reread your book and my daughter-in-law has read it too, and some of my young people, all bona fide first-time readers - and no fools at all. We are all of the same opinion that it is a beautiful book, of the strength of Balzac's best, and more real, that is, more faithful to the truth from one end to the other. It takes the great art, the exquisite form and the severity of your work to do without the flowers of fantasy. Yet you throw poetry into your painting, whether your characters understand it or not. Rosanette at Fontainebleau does not know what grass she is walking on, and she is poetic all the same.
All this is from a master and your place is well and truly conquered for ever. So live quietly as much as possible so as to last a long time and produce a lot.
I saw two bits of an article which did not seem to me to be in revolt against your success, but I hardly know what is going on, politics seems to me to absorb everything. Keep me posted. If you were not given justice I would get angry and say what I think, that's my right. [We send you our praise and our love.
She signs: "your old troubadour G. Sand".
Correspondence, t. XXI, p. 718.