Tag Archives: Gustave Flaubert

Fed’s Little Cat Feet, Rafa’s Bullish Force

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2013

The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Fog", Carl Sandburg, James Patterson, Madame Bovary, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Sports, tennis | Comments closed

The Brave New World of Twitterature

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2012

Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Catcher in the Rye, E. M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Howards End, In Search of Lost Time, J. D. Salinger, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck, Madame Bovary, Marcel Proust, Metamorphosis, Of Mice and Men, Paradise Lost, Pride and Prejudice, Trial | Comments closed

The Translator’s Impossible Dilemma

By Robin Bates | Published: January 19, 2012

A translator of literature must choose between poetry and accuracy. It’s almost impossible to have both.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Emma Bovary, Ivan Cankar, translation, Ward of Our Lady of Mercy | Comments closed

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