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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
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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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