Gustave Flaubert (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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“The novelist’s novelist,” as Henry James called him, Gustave Flaubert became an undisputed, if controversial, master of prose fiction in a great age of French prose. Celebrated as the founder of the modern novel, especially in its psychological dimensions, Flaubert published no poetry (if one excepts segments of The Temptation of Saint Anthony) but did write a great many dramatic scenarios and fragments, as the manuscript collection at the Rouen library illustrates....

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