IDENTITY
Candide / Bouvard et Pécuchet
Literature
Work Summary
A grouped reference to Voltaire's Candide and Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet. Both works use comedy and intellectual failure to test received systems of knowledge: Candide through catastrophic experience and Bouvard et Pécuchet through repeated attempts to master disciplines from books.
Evidence Summary
Van Gogh says the memory of these books often sustains him during uncomfortable and unenviable hours, days or nights.
Documents a stated sustaining function of reading during a difficult period; no specific artistic application is asserted here.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Voltaire / Gustave Flaubert
Work
Candide / Bouvard et Pécuchet
Years / Period
28 Apr–2 May 1889
Van Gogh Relation
Discussed / Commented On, Mentioned
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
the memory of that often sustains me in the uncomfortable and unenviable hours and days or nights
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
28 Apr–2 May 1889 — Letter 764
Remembered / reflected on
the memory of that often sustains me in the uncomfortable and unenviable hours and days or nights
Response: Van Gogh says the memory of these books often sustains him during uncomfortable and unenviable hours, days or nights.
Connection: Documents a stated sustaining function of reading during a difficult period; no specific artistic application is asserted here.
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