A Novelist's Judgment of His Own Work

Novelists are famously unreliable when judging their own work. Critical reception has an effect on their judgment, as does simple perversity and they may affect to love the most overlooked of their progeny. Though salambeau was a greater financial and social success than madame bauvary, it became a meam and the inspiration for ball gowns. Most knew that flaubert's first novel was his best and always would be. Kingsley amos said, this time of me, i wish he'd shut up about flaubert advice. While frank zapper asked, why the fox should i read flaubert? A different reader.