Post by aofford on Apr 25, 2013 16:26:05 GMT -5
In "Flaubert's Parrot" there is a little story in Chapter 7: Cross Channel (pp. 91 in my Picador version) which Braithwaite relates concerning a madman named Mirabeau in the Rouen asylum "who became popular with the doctors because for the price of a cup of coffee" he would have sex with a corpse.
This is a true story (i.e., actually found in Flaubert's notes) or did Barnes invent it?
Any help would be great.
This is a true story (i.e., actually found in Flaubert's notes) or did Barnes invent it?
Any help would be great.