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Flaubert, Gustave: Flaubert: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060622
Author:Barnes, Julian

Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert: A Biography. Frederick Brown. New York: Little, Brown, 2005. 628 pp. $35.00.

"Like previous biographers, Brown is more authoritative on the second half of Flaubert's life than the first, where he tends to lapse both into the biographer's hypothetical, and--presumably following Sartre--into a too-easy Freudianism. But he is excellent on Flaubert's sexual and amatory life, on the divide between his taste for scatology and prostitutes, and his reliance on reverie and imaginative memory."

Julian Barnes. NYRB, May 25, 2006: 12-15.

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