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We're living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned

  • Written by Susanna Lee, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
'I want to produce such an impression of utter weariness and ennui that my readers will imagine the book could only have been written by a cretin,' Flaubert wrote.Photo by Nadar / ullstein bild via Getty Images

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