出版社：Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
摘要：What does reading literature mean to a writer? In his Correspondence Flaubert answers that it is an indispensable task, a study of different styles allowing one to create one’s own poetics, and most importantly, keep oneself from being influenced by rhetoric of the present time. Flaubert reads the classics to find a modern way of writing.
