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Julian Barnes: Author v. Publisher, 23 October 2025

Gustave Flaubert et Michel Lévy: Un couple explosif 
by Yvan Leclerc and Jean-Yves Mollier.
Le Livre de Poche, 224 pp., €8.40, November 2024, 978 2 253 94112 5
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... you. I’ve always thought well of Lévy for never having said a word to me about my book.’ As Leclerc and Mollier put it, Flaubert viewed publication as ‘a compromise, or worse … a prostitution’.Needless to say, Flaubert didn’t negotiate his contracts directly with Lévy, which was just as well: his niece Caroline said of him that he ‘had ...

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