Volume 49, Number 10 · June 13, 2002
'Think Like a Demigod'
By Roger Shattuck
Flaubert: A Life
by Geoffrey Wall
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 413 pp., $27.00
Most cultivated readers, critics, and literary historians would, I believe, rank Gustave Flaubert among the ten best novelists of all time. He earned that honor toward the close of the Romantic era primarily on the basis of a single book, Madame Bovary, in which he harnessed and disciplined the effusiveness of his early writing. Behind Madame Bovary stands a corpus of less-known writing and a surprisingly eventful life.
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