A Dictionary of Platitudes by Gustave Flaubert

A Dictionary of Platitudes

Gustave Flaubert

159 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

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Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the “right thinking” swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of absurdities, of half-truths and ...

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