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From: The Spectator
Date: 20020216
Author:Keates, Jonathan

Jonathan Keates THE LETTERS OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, VOLUMES I AND II, 1830-1880 selected, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller Picador, 20, pp. 720, ISBN 0330488473

Flaubert's life was not conventionally happy. Marriage, children and the comforting measure of domesticity supposedly provided by family life were all denied to him. Friends were periodically lost through quarrelling or their own mortality, and he himself died of an apoplectic fit, part of the symptomatic cocktail accompanying tertiary syphilis, after muttering the unmemorable words, `Rouen - we're not far from Rouen - ...

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