Youth and Egolatry by Pio Baroja — Read

_Flaubert_

Flaubert is a heavy-footed animal. It is plain that he is a Norman. All his work has great specific gravity. He disgusts me. One of Flaubert's master strokes was the conception of the character of Homais, the apothecary, in _Madame Bovary_. I cannot see, however, that Homais is any more stupid than Flaubert himself, and he may even be less so.