Willa Cather described her real-life encounter with this author’s niece Caroline in the essay “A Chance Meeting.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author whose narrative “Hérodias” is quoted by his niece in “A Chance Meeting.” Cather wrote “One knows it too well to know it well” of this author’s novel Madame Bovary.
ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert
[10m] Flaubert’s niece’s memoirs led to the discovery of two works by Flaubert, whose hiding this author called a “literary entombment to match the actual one.” This author wrote Flaubert’s Parrot and The Sense of an Ending.
ANSWER: Julian Barnes [or Julian Patrick Barnes]
[10h] Flaubert sometimes referred to his niece as “Loulou,” which is also the name of a parrot in this short story. In the opening of Flaubert’s Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite buys a student text of this story while in Rouen (“roo-AWN”).
ANSWER: “A Simple Heart” [or “Un Cœur Simple”; or “A Simple Soul”]
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