Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French novelist who, with near contemporaries Stendhal and Honore de Balzac, is credited with the development of literary realism. Decades before Henry James ' explicit defense of the novel as an art form on equal standing to other fine arts, Flaubert elevated the novel through exacting ...
Gustave was a man of style, be it his love for art, his writing or attire. Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France. His father was a chief surgeon at the Rouen hospital. During the 1830s Flaubert went to school at Collége Royal de Rouen and wrote for the school newspaper.
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Flaubert knew the regional setting, the place of his birth and youth, in and around the city of Rouen in Normandy. His faithfulness to the mundane elements of country life has garnered the book its reputation as the beginning of the movement known as literary realism .
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. Considéré, avec Victor Hugo , Stendhal , Balzac et Zola , comme l'un des plus grands romanciers français du XIX e siècle, Flaubert se distingue par sa conception du métier d’écrivain et la ...
Gustave Flaubert was a French prose writer considered to be one of the best western authors of his time. He was born and brought up in France and was a part of a rich family. He was not a brilliant student and studied under strict and controlled environment when he was young.
Gustave Flaubert was born December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France, and died May 8, 1880. He was the fourth child of a distinguished doctor who was the head of the hospital in that city. Gustave was a sensitive and quiet boy; he read a lot, and since the family lived in a house on the hospital grounds, he early gained a knowledge of scientific ...
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