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Article: Flaubert, not surprisingly, stars again.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2002
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Byline: Colin Walters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Julian Barnes uses the occasion of a walking tour in the Vercors, south of Grenoble, to recall the life and career of the British historian Richard Cobb (died 1996) who first went to France and a Paris that still boasted Edith Wharton in 1935. Cobb was, like so many people who have caught Mr. Barnes' fancy over many years of cross-Channel travel and reading, somewhat out of the ordinary. He preferred the cities of the north to the sunnier south and was attracted to "popular life rather than the literary pilgrimage."
Cobb acquired, Mr. Barnes writes, "a 'second identity,' didn't regret the partial loss of ...