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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.
Gustave Flaubert est un écrivain français né à Rouen le 12 décembre 1821 et mort à Croisset, lieu-dit de la commune de Canteleu, le 8 mai 1880.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Sep 28, 2012 · 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 …
