A review by romanoirs
The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert

3.0

This is the second short story in my collection of Three Tales. A Simple Heart is my favourite short story, period, and this was a fitting second in the collection. Flaubert is infamous for painstakingly choosing every word in a sentence and you can tell that with his beautiful descriptions in his short prose. The ending was a bit of a shock to me and I think it would have been a 4 star story if it wasn't for how abrupt it was.