Gustave Flaubert - Wikipedia
WEBBouvard et Pécuchet. Signature. Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈfloʊbɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / floʊˈbɛər / floh-BAIR; [1][2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.
Gustave Flaubert | French Novelist, Realist & Poet | Britannica
WEBGustave Flaubert was a novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a realistic portrayal of bourgeois life, which led to a trial on charges of the novel’s alleged immorality.
Gustave Flaubert (Author of Madame Bovary) - Goodreads
WEBGustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an ...
Gustave Flaubert summary | Britannica
WEBGustave Flaubert, (born Dec. 12, 1821, Rouen, France—died May 8, 1880, Croisset), French novelist. Flaubert abandoned law studies at age 22 for a life of writing.
Madame Bovary | Summary, Characters, Analysis, & Facts
WEBAug 23, 2024 — Madame Bovary, novel by Gustave Flaubert, serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 and published in two volumes in 1857. Flaubert transformed a commonplace story of adultery into an enduring work of profound humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece.
Gustave Flaubert’s Unsimple Heart | The New Yorker
WEBApr 28, 2002 — A pious utopian (bleeding hearts are a leitmotif of Flaubert biography), Louise objected, Wall writes, to “Flaubert’s ‘aristocratic ideas’ about women,” and she complained that his ...
Gustave Flaubert | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 14, 2018 — The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school in France. Gustave Flaubert was …
Biography of Gustave Flaubert | Flaubert 21
WEBFlaubert was able to devote himself entirely to literature without ever practising a subsistence profession. In March 1846, his sister died in turn, not surviving the birth of a little girl, named Caroline as her mother and as her grandmother (there are three generations of Caroline in the family).
The Classical Library - Gustave Flaubert
WEBGustave Flaubert. (1821-1880) "Madame Bovary. C’est moi." said Gustave Flaubert, describing his sense of connection with the agony and emotional suffering of his most noted heroine. Flaubert was born in Rouen, Normandy. As the son of a successful surgeon, he was introduced early on to life’s realities of illness and death.
Analysis of Gustave Flaubert’s Stories - Literary Theory and …
WEBApr 22, 2020 — Gustave Flaubert’s (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) Three Tales, published during the year 1877, when he was fifty-six years old, reflects the variety of styles of his literary production as a whole.
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