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Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈ f l oʊ b ɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / f l oʊ ˈ b ɛər / 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 (born December 12, 1821, Rouen, France—died May 8, 1880, Croisset) 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 ( / ˈboʊvəri /; [ 1] 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.
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.
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 was born on December 12, 1821, in the hospital of Rouen. His father, Achille-Cléophas, was its chief surgeon. Caroline, her mother, née Fleuriot, is from Pont-Audemer. Her brother Achille, the eldest of the siblings, is then eight years old. Three years later, Caroline, his beloved sister, his playmate, was born.