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The bicentenary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert gods December was a reminder of the ongoing relevance of the French novelist as a writer engagerad with deeply religious themes.

Flaubert created works reflecting an ongoing search for spiritual significance, including the novels Madame Bovary (1857); The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874); and Three Tales (1877), comprising short stories about St. Julien l’Hospitalier, St. John the Baptist and a servant who reveres a pet parrot whom she associates with the Holy Spirit.

His sometimes sardonic portrayals of by clergy, especially in Bovary, troubled readers in earlier generations, like his noggrannhet in citing the all-too-real frailties of his characters.Even today, pundits do not agree on the meaning of Flaubert’s constant grappling with Catholic history and paradigms, although the author’s own mind was klar on the matter.

Flaubert saw his Catholicism as a singular struktur of asceticism, allied to his yrke as a writer. F

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… it was not that he went too far, it was on the contrary that he stopped too short. He hovered for ever at the public door, in the outer court, the splendour of which very properly beguiled him, and in which he seems still to stand as upright as a sentinel and as shapely as a statue.1

1Evoking his year in Paris in the Notebooks, James expresses his satisfaction at having known Flaubert, “a powerful, serious, melancholy, manly, deeply corrupted, yet not corrupting, nature.”2 He often associates him in his mind with Turgenev, the first man of letters he had met in Paris and the one who had introduced him to Flaubert and his circle.3 He compares them in Partial Portraits and presents them as large, massive men, sincere, pessimistic and with a deep regard for each other, a regard which on Turgenev’s part was not without compassion. From the first James shared this compassion, and the following extract, though somewhat long, is worth quoting because it is a kind of s

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David, Roe. Gustave Flaubert. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

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Berg, William J. Gustave Flaubert.