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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 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 objective method of presenting reality".
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 · Madame Bovary, novel by Gustave Flaubert, serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 and then published in two volumes the following year. Flaubert transformed a commonplace story of adultery into an enduring work of profound humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some, it ushered in a new age of realism ...
May 14, 2018 · Gustave Flaubert >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 born on Dec. 12, 1821, in Rouen.
Gustave Flaubert greatly influenced the development of the modern novel. In the historical context of French literature, his work forms a bridge between romanticism and realism, and his art arises ...
The places of Gustave Flaubert The Hotel Dieu: a playground. Gustave’s room is located on the second floor of the family home, which occupies the end of the south wing of the hospital. The environment is special. Flaubert wrote to Marie-Sophie Leroyer de Chantepie in 1857, “I grew up in the midst of all human misery — from which a wall ...
Apr 28, 2002 · An Unsimple Heart. “A romantic anarchist with a small private income,” Flaubert lived in the country with his mother for most of his writing life. Illustration by J. J. Sempé. I once spent a ...
Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821 in Rouen. His father was a surgeon at the city’s hospital, and he spent his childhood in a rather morbid atmosphere. Early on he was fascinated by literature and writing, but was bored in school, and even more bored by the prospect of “going to law school” and becoming a lawyer.
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