Immortal writer Flaubert

Author: Henry Troyat
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: The content of this book: At the beginning of entering the world, disease, decay, and death had deeply penetrated the child's mind. Stretcher bearers carried patients, passing through the garden; emaciated shadows, leaning on crutches, wandered along the paths. Some patients had a vacant expression on their faces. Gustave liked to love them, with vacant eyes and a drooping lower lip. If the father's clothes always smelled of hospital medicine, then the mother's manner of dealing with people always brought a sense of joy and comfort. His eyes were deep and melancholic, his hair thick and black, his complexion fair, and his lips rarely smiled, always in a state of pain.