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"A Simple Heart and soul" is the perfect Gustave Flaubert short story: a tale told in spare, straightforward language filled with richly noticed details. The "soul" is Felicite, the exemplary servant of the austere Madame Aubin. Orphaned and illiterate, Felicite devotes her life to her mistress and Madame's two children. Her kindheartedness reaches her nephew and a local beggar, but it is seldom reciprocated. Over time, Felicite suffers many losses but is greatly comforted by the gift of a bird, Loulou, who becomes her dearest partner. Deeply spiritual and burdened by the maladies of old age, she eventually confuses the long-dead Loulou with her muddled conception of the Holy Ghost. This finely wrought identity study of the life span of the selfless innocent is a deserved common.
