Abstract
Flaubert hated publicity. A belated Romantic, he meant to stay invisible, hidden from his readers. In a feat of collective misreading, Flaubert's exemplary artistic impersonality has dominated conceptions of literary modernity. The author argues from biographical evidence that Flaubert's impersonality was originally a scheme for survival. It was designed to veil the intimate strangeness of Flaubert's creative power, to mask the satiric violence of his comic spirit. It was also a political strategem, a trick to secure his imaginative freedom at a time when the French state was anxiously trying to manage the dissident powers of art.
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