One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
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Gustave Flaubert was a 19th-century French novelist. Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. Read more on Wikipedia →