Flaubert Salombo

Raymond Goyce: I reread one of my favorite novels which is a novel that everyone else who has any kind of fine grained aesthetic sensibility hates but I actually just love and that's Flaubert Salombo. The Carthaginians were trying to get a firm political hold on Sicily they had a different social structure from the Roman social structure in that they didn't use their citizens as warriors they were commercial city, hired mercenaries. He says we have to write poems that are completely different from that by virtue of using words in a completely different way so we take a number of different wordswe put them together he writes something which is at the same time just on the border of