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A review by danadalloway
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

4.0

This novel is like literary Photorealism, with paragraph-long descriptions of meals and their serving dishes, women's clothing, and even the street-fighting of the Revolution of 1848. Like Balzac when he's serious, Flaubert skewers the idle rich, romantic youth, and French society in general. It is a very long book and perhaps its past its relevance, despite James Wood's assertion that all modern writers owe Flaubert a debt for his naturalism.