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The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume I, by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s monumental study of Gustave Flaubert, L’Idiot de la famille, originally published in 1971-72 is hardly the delightful “novel of suspense” that Simone de Beauvoir once amazingly called it.



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