Question
The Sherlock Holmes story “The Red-Headed League” ends with Holmes quoting a letter from this author to George Sand that claims, “the man is nothing – the work is everything.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who corresponded extensively with Sand in his later years. A review by Sand praises this author’s novel Salammbo and chastises the critics of his first novel, Madame Bovary.
ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert (“flo-BAIR”)
[10h] Echoing Flaubert’s gender-bending remark “Madame Bovary, c’est moi” (“say mwah”), Sand wrote to him, “it seemed to me that I was” this literary hero. In a novella published alongside the novel Atala, this character lives with the Natchez people.
ANSWER: René (“ruh-NAY”) (He is the title character of René by François-René de Chateaubriand.)
[10m] Flaubert wrote this story from his Three Tales in honor of Sand’s sincere sensibilities. In this story, the kind servant woman Felicité (“fuh-lee-see-TAY”) sees a heavenly vision of her stuffed parrot Loulou as she dies.
ANSWER: “A Simple Heart” [or “Un cœur simple”]
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