![]() 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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