"... In this moment of mild delusion, I’m
distracted. I’ve always wanted to write an essay about distraction, I
think. Add it to the laundry list of incomplete ideas I continue to
nurse because some part of me suspects they will never come to fruition,
and so will never have to be endured by readers. These are things you
can keep in the drawer of your mind, glittering with unrealized
potential. In the top row of my bedroom bookshelf is a copy of
Flaubert’s final novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet. Something about it seems appropriate, though I’m not sure exactly what. I pluck it down. ..."
2012 August: On Cataloguing Flaubert, 2013 March: Sentimental Education - 1(1869), 2017 August: The Sentimental Education (1869), 2018 May: In Which Our Tragic Effects Remain Purely Professional, 2019 March: The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (1911), 2021 November: Madame Bovary and the Impossibility of Re-reading - Anjali Joseph, 2021 December: In Which a Direct Line is Drawn From Flaubert’s Unfinished Novel, 2022 May: Three Tales (1877)
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