On ne se souvient pas de Flaubert

Reference to Flaubert in contemporary writers is not like a return to the author. It does not appear as a recollection but as an evidence that can follow various directions, whether the chosen route be Bouvard et Pécuchet, L’Éducation sentimentale or Madame Bovary. This article traces these three approaches, which also allow an overall view of contemporary French literature