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Flaubert reads his texts aloud

Bureau de Gustave Flaubert — The office of Gustave Flaubert

For Flaubert, the obsession with the precise and musical word is permanent. He writes and rewrites his texts, on average about ten times. Each of his works requires five years of work. To test the sound and rhythm of his sentences, he reads them aloud, sometimes even as he writes. This oral performance, he calls him «the yeller». But beware: the «gueuloir» is not a precise place; the word denotes a mode of writing in the ear. “I am exhausted from shouting all evening while writing” (to Louise Colet, March 21, 1853); “I continue to howl like a gorilla in the silence of the cabinet” (to her niece Caroline, August 7, 1876).

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