The Happiest Day of Our Lives

Ledu cassion santimental came out in 18 69, and flaubert blamed the franco prussian war for diverting attention. The novelists of the next generation, led by huismans, thought it the greatest novel in french ure. It exemplified a central flabertian doctrine, that joy and beauty and happiness and sure lie first in the anticipation and later in the memory. A charred copy of bouvari pecuchet might suggest that i was grown up and had advanced literary taste,. but this would have been a obituary. In truth, the enormous second part baffled and bored me even before i had considered the enormous amount of information contained