The Life-Work of Flaubert, from the Russian of Merejowski

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G. A. Mounsey offers a literary critique of the works of the nineteenth century French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Highly influential, Flaubert has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. Mounsey, full of awe of him, describes him thus, "To most artists beauty is a more or less abstract quality; to Flaubert it was as concrete an object of passion as is gold to the miser, power to the ambitious, or his lady to the lover. His work was like a deliberate suicide; he gave himself entirely up to it, with the fanaticism of a man possessed by a mania, with th...