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The Demoralizer - A profile of Gustave Flaubert.
From: World and I
Date: 20020901
Author:SIMON, LINDA
Linda Simon is professor of English at Skidmore College.
His mother told him, "Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart." Henry James agreed. Flaubert, he wrote to his brother William in 1876, was "almost tragic: his big intellectual temperament, machinery, &c, & his vainly colossal attempts to press out the least little drop of passion. So much talent ... and yet so much dryness & coldness." Julian Barnes, in the fictionalized biography Flaubert's Parrot, defined him in the briefest epigrams: "The hermit of Croisset. The first modern novelist. The father of realism. ...
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