![]() But the more I study you, the more your skill leaves me gaping. I have considered you a master for a long time. 16, 1863 How grateful I am for the gift you sent me! I have just read your two volumes, and really must tell you that I am delighted with them. * Flaubert from Croisset, France, to Turgenev on Mar. These excerpts from their letters are taken from the editor-translator Barbara Beaumont's ''Flaubert & Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence,'' which W. The 230-odd letters they exchanged, mostly after 1868, are filled with discussions of literature and politics, but the characters of the two come through clearly - especially that of Flaubert, as he turned himself into the hermit of Croisset, the community near Rouen where he had a country house. ![]() But until now their complete 17-year correspondence has not been published. ![]() The history of their friendship is part of the literary history of the age. 28, 1863, when Flaubert was 41 years old and Turgenev 44. ![]() Gustave Flaubert met Ivan Turgenev in a Left Bank restaurant in Paris on Feb. ![]()
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