The Misremembering of Books

Sion flabert is a writer who, more than most, can provoke obsessive devotion and obsessive behaviour. One of the more arcane items of flaubertiana is ambris perin's madame bauvari,. dan lordre two thousand and 12. It lists every single word, number and punctuation mark that occurs in the 18 73 charpentier edition of the novel. The book has six vertical columns to a page, and prints out the word each time it occurs. In the years before digitization, it could be a hazy business noticing and remembering how often a word occurs in particular book. For instance, i believed for a number of years that flaubert had