Word: flaubert
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Fortunately, Flaubert's life, which spanned more than half of the 19th century--a turbulent time in French politics and one of the more fruitful in French intellectual and literary history--is in itself interesting enough to save the book and make it fairly engaging...
BORN in 1821 (at 4 a.m. on December 12), Flaubert spent his early years in Rouen, an industrial town in Normandy. He began writing when he was only eight years old, and despite several years of education to practice law, he remained a writer all of his life...
...Although Flaubert, who was always engaged in a search for just the right word or phrase, sometimes wrote only a few lines in a day, his parents amassed quite a good deal of land (at least a full chapter of the book details its location and exact acerage), which provided a consistent income in rents...
...Flaubert won the case, and literary Paris awaited the advent of each of his successive books with anticipation, although they were not always well-received...
...contradictions like this one--and Flaubert's refusal to marry, despite the fact that he had many lovers and professed himself "in love" several times--lie the mystery of the author's character which might have led him to identify with the ill-fated Emma Bovary...