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No larger than life; Literary biography.(Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20011110
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IN 1861 Gustave Flaubert threw a dinner party to celebrate the progress he was making on his novel, "Salammbo". The menu, he promised, would include "human flesh, brain of bourgeois and tigress clitorises sauteed in rhinoceros butter". This was perfectly in keeping with his dissolute, bourgeois-baiting public persona. George Sand, who met him in 1863, asked whether he really deserved this reputation. Far from it, he candidly replied. "I have dreamed much and done very little."

Flaubert was born in 1821, the second son of a surgeon and professor of clinical medicine in Rouen. ...

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