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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20021208
Author:Shaw, Simon

Byline: SIMON SHAW

Flaubert, by Geoffrey Wall Faber pound sterling12.99 pound sterling10.39 (0870 165 0870) When Gustave Flaubert published Madame Bovary, the novel which made his name, it was considered so scandalous that he was charged with 'offending public morality, religion and decency'. It's ironic that the man who so offended bourgeois sensibilities should have been himself the product of an upbringing steeped in provincial respectability but, as Wall makes clear in this incisive portrait, Flaubert's life was studded with contradiction. It took me a while to get used ...

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