" He lamented becoming a “professional Auschwitz survivor”—in his letters he would use the term “Auschwitz Clown”—he chafed at playing the “professional senex” when On Aging: Revolt and Resignation appeared in 1968, and his urge to decry his devolution into a stock character may have inclined him to sympathize with the fictional Charles Bovary’s claims to humanity. "

― Jean Améry , Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: A Portrait of a Simple Man