Flaubert lecteur : une histoire des écritures by Philippe Dufour

“…During the 1845-1857 period in particular his literary readings perfect his training and provide him with his esthetics, in a game of confrontations. We find on the one hand the admired figures of the past, whether they be the great naïve geniuses who inspire Flaubert’s dogma of impersonality, or the masters of the classical age, who remind the inspired writer to be patient. …”
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