J Wood and Flaubert

[rich]

what about Salammbo? offbeat mix of the esoteric/exotic with
historical insight/personalities. like st anthony unlike the other
works for sure

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
> It is certainly telling that the only mention in How Fiction Works of Flaubert's "Temptation of St. Anthony" is when Wood calls it an "overblown lyrical fantasia" (p.188). He must know how important that work was for later writers, however, it doesn't really fit in with his devotion to Jamesian realism or his view of Flaubert.
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