Dear Mole
Julian Barnes, 23 January 1986
Flaubert and Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters
translated by Barbara Beaumont.
Athlone, 197 pp., £18, October 1985,0 485 11277 9 Show More
translated by Barbara Beaumont.
Athlone, 197 pp., £18, October 1985,
“... the writer’s niece, it seems), thus effectively disenfranchising her. The correspondence with Turgenev, largely complete, is probably the third most important exchange after those with Louise Colet and George Sand; and it comes from the mellower end of Flaubert’s tonal spectrum. The letters to Louise are almost wholly combative: he fights against being ... ”