Flaubert is a 8 letter English word.
You can make 346 anagrams from letters in Flaubert (abeflrtu).
Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
James Wood reminds us again and again that Flaubert invented realism and Bloom that Shakespeare invented us.
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
These expressions must be taken literally in Flaubert's case.
Flaubert, indeed, had no "outward life;" he lived only for his art.
But he himself reproduces the same saying about Flaubert wanting to write a novel about nothing.
That Flaubert escaped their error only so far as by fire has been allowed.
I did not attempt a monument in the frozen manner of your Flaubert.
Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert.
In the matter of style--as Flaubert has said--the second-bests are often the better teachers.