Brian Patrick Eha is a widely-published essayist, journalist, and critic. In this expansive conversation we talk Gustave Flaubert as a precursor to Modernism, the method of free indirect discourse in Madame Bovary and the madness of The Temptation of St. Anthony, as well as a few under-appreciated books from Brian’s personal canon..
Essays by Brian that we mention:https://www.city-journal.org/article/madame-bovary-author-gustave-flaubert
https://www.city-journal.org/article/alfred-hayess-fiction-retains-contemporary-relevance
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