Author: Enid Starkie

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• Cynthia Ozick (1)
  • IN: The Puttermesser Papers (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flaubert does not build up his characters, as did Balzac, by objective, external description; in fact, so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes; on another deep black eyes; and on another blue eyes.
    FROM: quoted in Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, (1984), Conversation, Ireland