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Loading... Bouvard and Pecuchetby Gustave Flaubert
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Flaubert's last great work was such a massive undertaking that the strain killed him, as Guy De Maupassant so eloquently wrote: 'Finally, one day he fell, stricken, against the foot of his work-table, killed by HER, by LITERATURE; killed as are all great passionate souls by the passion that fires them.' Well that combined with a poor diet and lack of exercise, boozing, smoking, high blood pressure, money worries, syphilis, incompetent doctors etc etc. It was also James Joyce's favourite book and one that I keep coming back to and rereading with greater pleasure each time. Even though it is unfinished Flaubert does map out the end ['America will have conquered the earth...Universal vulgarity'] - and like Finnegans Wake our characters complete the circle and return to their beginning. no reviews | add a review
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Letter to Paul Romaine, 1932
Selected Letters, pg. 366