FlaubertLectura y escritua
ISSN: 0212-4130
Year of publication: 2007
Issue Title: Homenaje a Antonio Lorenzo
Issue: 25
Pages: 69-78
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract
Among other works that he later read, Flaubert «listened to» Don Quixote before he actually read the book. In the vast amount of his correspondence we can find traces of the books he read and those traces show the simbiosis between reading well and writing well. Hence the literary dogma that permeates thousands of his correspondence pages: one must be acquainted with the great authors before daring to embark on creative writing.