Gustave Flaubert - 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland

Question

Vladimir Nabokov’s lecture on this author criticizes translators’ disregard of this author’s use of semicolons before the word “and,” such as in a passage in which the protagonist watches rain fall in Rouen. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this French author, whom Nabokov complained had such “ignoble, treacherous, and philistine translators” that “one would think that” Monsieur Homais had translated this author’s novel Madame Bovary.

ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert

[10m] Part of the difficulty of translating Madame Bovary is due to Flaubert’s ruthless pruning of the novel in his search for this thing. You may give the two or three-word French term used by Flaubert, or the English translation.

ANSWER: “le mot juste” [or the right word or the precise word or the exact word]

[10h] Nabokov quotes several of Flaubert’s descriptions of these things, which are compared to a dimming lamp near the end of the novel. The inconsistent colors of these things have puzzled Flaubert critics like Enid Starkie.

ANSWER: Emma Bovary’s eyes [accept Madame Bovary’s eyes; prompt on Bovary’s eyes]

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2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
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