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Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈ f l oʊ b ɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / f l oʊ ˈ b ɛər / floh-BAIR, 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.
Jun 14, 2024 · Gustave 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.
Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; French: [madam bɔvaʁi]), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857.
Gustave 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 ...
Jun 27, 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.
12 December 1821: Gustave Flaubert is born in Rouen. July 15, 1824 : Birth of Caroline, sister of Gustave. May 15, 1832 : Admission to the Royal College of Rouen, in the eighth year.
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May 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.
Biography. PDF Cite Share. Article abstract: The most influential European novelist of the nineteenth century, Flaubert, who is most famous for his masterpiece Madame Bovary, is...
Gustave 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. His masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857), a sharply realistic portrayal of provincial bourgeois boredom and adultery, led to his trial (and narrow acquittal) on charges of immorality.
Jun 27, 2024 · Flaubert's sense of his own mission and modernity as a writer is manifest throughout his exceptionally readable correspondence. ‘Before Flaubert’, writes the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, ‘novelists sensed intuitively that form played a key role in the success or failure of their stories …
