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First Reading In A Summerhouse
- Julian Barnes read Madame Bovary at 15 in his grandparents' light-blue summer house.
- That first dutiful reading left him willing to return to Flaubert later.
Alphabetical Exhaustion
- Julian Barnes notes Flaubert provokes obsessive devotion, citing Ambrise Perin's alphabetical word list.
- The list prints every occurrence of each word, producing many pages yet offering little contextual value.
Faulty Memory About 'Adultery'
- Julian Barnes admitted he misremembered Flaubert's use of adultère and had imagined rare usage.
- Perin's concordance shows adultère appears repeatedly and always with sexual meaning.