Flaubert
Flaubert, Sartre and Asperger Syndrome – revised April 2008
I read somewhere that Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous existentialist philosopher, had written a biography of Gustave Flaubert, the author of Madam Bovary, in which Sartre said something to the effect that Flaubert’s very detailed descriptive style and poor understanding of social relationships exhibited in his fictional writings, were due to Flaubert being “Autistic”.
This aroused my [...]
