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Biography Illuminates Flaubert's Puzzling Genius
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930131
Author:Robert Wilson
Flaubert By Henri Troyat. Translated by Joan Pinkham. Viking. $25.
The French literary master Gustave Flaubert was a bundle of contradictions. As Henri Troyat, the biographer of Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev and others, writes in this recently translated biography of the author of Madame Bovary, "Curled up in his downy nest in Croisset, he dreamed of journeys to distant lands. . . . Obsessed by feminine charm, he refused to become attached to any woman. A revolutionary in art, he was conservative in daily life. Hungering for friendship, he lived most of the time apart from his ...
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