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When I read Madam Bovary several years ago, I couldn’t get Don Quixote out of my head. Flaubert read Cervantes’ novel when he was a young man and he was profoundly influenced by it.

The connection between the two authors is an interesting one. Well worth a read is “Flaubert and Don Quijote: How Cervantes influenced Madame Bovary” by Soledad Fox, a Professor of Comparative Literature at Williams College.

A review of the book can be found here,

https://theberkshireedge.com/book-review-flaubert-and-don-quijote-how-cervantes-influenced-madame-bovary/

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