Double Bind
Julian Barnes, 3 June 1982
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857
by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Chicago, 627 pp., £17.50, January 1982,0 226 73509 5 Show More
by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Chicago, 627 pp., £17.50, January 1982,
“... of his life, or that it brought upon the comrade of 1968 certain inevitable reproaches. But why Flaubert? After all, Sartre recorded in Les Mots how, as a child, he was ‘poisoned’ by the ‘old bile’ and the ‘abstract hatred of mankind’ of Flaubert, Gautier and the Goncourts; and a harsh excommunication was also ... ”