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Word: flaubertian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries, it is nevertheless modern in spirit, presents a picture of social anarchy that few readers are likely to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cripure | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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