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Gustave Flaubert

French novelist mentioned in literary critique.

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Also known as Flaubert

First appearance: i prejudices of philosophers

Gustave Flaubert shows up with force in Chapter 218. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Presented as an example of a French psychologist who derived bitter enjoyment from analyzing bourgeois stupidity, which became his mode of self-torment.
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