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  • In his first two novels, Dangling Man and The Victim, he had, as he said, "accepted a Flaubertian standard . . . which, in the end, I found repressive".

    Saul Bellow: Letters - review John Banville 2010

  • They taught me, before I discovered Nabokov, about the value of scientific detail in description and word selection, yet they also went extraordinarily afield of the Flaubertian search for the mot juste "right word".

    Archive 2008-02-17 2008

  • They taught me, before I discovered Nabokov, about the value of scientific detail in description and word selection, yet they also went extraordinarily afield of the Flaubertian search for the mot juste "right word".

    Alain Robbe-Grillet Exits the Labyrinth 2008

  • (39-40)Of Dick, Freedman says, "Much of the complexity of the style derives from the ironic fine-tuning possible in free indirect discourse, an instrument that Dick can at times play with near-Flaubertian precision" (41).

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • (39-40)Of Dick, Freedman says, "Much of the complexity of the style derives from the ironic fine-tuning possible in free indirect discourse, an instrument that Dick can at times play with near-Flaubertian precision" (41).

    PKD and Style 2006

  • The episode is post-Flaubertian in its impersonal detachment, or, as

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • This retro charm, though, is only part of Installation Sonore; more often they go at things with a Flaubertian instrumental precision.

    Wicked French Party Tunes From Band Named Rin������r��se 2000

  • This retro charm, though, is only part of Installation Sonore; more often they go at things with a Flaubertian instrumental precision.

    Wicked French Party Tunes From Band Named Rin������r��se 2000

  • He can expose all the lies Johnson told about his military service, but he does not notice the Flaubertian virtuosity of those accounts.

    Monstre Désacré Wills, Garry 1990

  • His aesthetic theory is a stimulating mixture of Flaubertian naturalism and neo-Thomism.

    James Joyce 1946

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