"When I was working on China Men, I remember reading a critic who was praising the great male writers, like Flaubert and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Henry James, who were able to write great women characters. I don't remember if they said women had done men in this way or not, but I remember thinking that to finish myself as a great artist I'd have to be able to create men characters. Along with that, I was thinking that I had to do more than the first person pronoun."
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1991 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)
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Gustave Flaubert
1821 – 1880
französischer Erzähler und Schriftsteller
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