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Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work
in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did
not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary
of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by
the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent
socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the
individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar,
ignorant, obsessed with material comforts, impervious to beauty,
the French middle class embodied for Flaubert every vice of the
democratic age. His loathing became a fixation-and a source of
literary inspiration. Flaubert depicts a man whose personality,
habits, and thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame
Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably bound
to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic escapes from
his "hole" in Croisset to pursue a variety of pleasures: fervent
friendships, society soirees, and a whirlwind of literary and
romantic encounters. He prided himself on the impersonality of his
writing, but he did not hesitate to use material from his own life
in his fiction. Nowhere are Flaubert's contradictions more evident
than in his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for
the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to
collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the timelessness and
sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not transcend the era he
abominated. Rejecting the modern world, he paradoxically became its
celebrated chronicler and the most modern writer of his time.
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