DESPISING HUMANITY AND NOT JUST THE BOURGEOIS.
DESPISING HUMANITY AND NOT JUST THE BOURGEOIS. After Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I purchased his book about Flaubert. He says about Flaubert: “On the pretext of hating the bourgeois, he hated and despised humanity.” So perhaps when Flaubert uses “we”, he means to include all of humanity.