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Julian Barnes: Flaubert at 200

The LRB Podcast

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Flabert's Endings

T s eliot thought that after the second world war there would be a totalitarian future in which everyone would be either in uniforms or civil servants, karke or pinstripes. Around the same time, george orwell believed and repeated that peace would bring a british revolution. Compare the non engaged flabert's predictions about the coming twentieth century,. it will be utilitarian, militaristic, american and catholic, very catholic. The horse plough will give way to the tractor. The country houses will be turned into children's holiday camps. The eton and harrow match will be forgotten.

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