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From: Artforum
Date: 20050201
Author:Rimanelli, David

LUXURY & DEGRADATION

DAVID RIMANELLI ON GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

"Poor Flaubert has been turned inside out for the lesson, but it has been given to him to constitute practically-on the demonstrator's table with an attentive circle round-an extraordinary, a magnificent 'case.' "

-Henry James

And was he a nice man?" I posed this question about Claude Debussy to my piano teacher after having struggled in vain with a strenuous passage in Suite Bergamasque; I was looking for an out, and my preceptor enjoyed expatiating on the lives of artists.

"Not at all," she replied. "A great composer but a very ...

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