In <strong>A Simple Heart</strong> the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes FlaubertsParrot Felicite a French housemaid approaches a lifetime of servitude... » 

In A Simple Heart the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes FlaubertsParrot Felicite a French housemaid approaches a lifetime of servitude withhumanscaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beautyand integrity to so modest an existence. Flauberts great saint endures lossafter loss by embracing the rich true rhythms of life the comfort ofdomesticity the solace of the Church and the depth of memory. This novellashowcases Flauberts perfectly honed realism a delicate counterpoint of dailyevents with their psychological repercussions. Flaubert is diagnosis EzraPound wrote the whole of Flaubert the whole fight for the novel as histoiremorale contemporaine was a fight against maxims against abstractions a fightback toward a human andor total conception. «