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Gustave Flaubert, novel by novel; Le mot juste and more.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20020630
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

When an eminent novelist has spent the greater part of his career portraying the contours of his own life using a series of thinly veiled surrogates, what is left for his biographer to explore? When the novelist in question is Gustave Flaubert, famously known to have remarked "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," why venture beyond the clues contained in his best known work?

In "Flaubert: A Life," Geoffrey Wall has found much to explore and relate. And while his investigations into the creation of "Madame Bovary" and the controversy that ...

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