Three short stories — a servant's devoted, shrinking life, a legend of a bloodstained saint, and the beheading of John the Baptist — showcase Flaubert's precision across wildly different registers.
Books that mention Three Tales (3)
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes: “1877 Publication of Trois Contes. A critical and popular success: for the first time Flaubert receives a favourable review.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essay 'Gustave Flaubert, Trois Contes' (primary subject)”
Youth by Mori Ōgai: “He had tried many forms for the legend: verse, prose, or the epic manner, in the style of one of Flaubert's Three Tales, and he had even thought of modelling it on one of Maeterlinck's short plays. [auto-translated]”