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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20060415
Author:James Wood

James Wood
International Herald Tribune
04-15-2006
Flaubert A BiographyBy Frederick Brown628 pages. $35. Little, Brown & CompanyReviewed by James Wood*Novelists should thank Gustave Flaubert the way poets thank spring: it begins again with him. He is the originator of the modern novel; indeed, you could say that he is the originator of modern narrative that the war reporter and the thriller writer owe as much to him as the avant-garde fictionist. The great bear of Croisset, the monkish aesthete who spent much of his life in one house, and a great deal of that time in one room, has sired ...

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