190 pages
English language
Published Nov. 24, 1990 by Vintage Books.
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A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Appreciation -- Fiction.
- Literary historians -- Fiction.
- Biographers -- Fiction.
- France -- Fiction.