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Apr 20, 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.
Gustave Flaubert. Born. in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. December 12, 1821. Died. May 08, 1880. Genre. Fiction. Influences. Victor Hugo, François-René de Chateaubriand, Miguel de Cervantes, Lord. ...more. edit data. Gustave Flaubert is counted among the greatest Western novelists.
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 · Died: May 8, 1880. Croisset, France. French novelist and author. The French novelist Gustave Flaubert was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a deliberate art form and in introducing this objective form of writing in France.
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.
Apr 28, 2002 · Gustave Flaubert’s Unsimple Heart | The New Yorker. Books. An Unsimple Heart. By Judith Thurman. April 28, 2002. “A romantic anarchist with a small private income,” Flaubert lived in the...
Feb 15, 2023 · Gustave Flaubert | Books | The Guardian. September 2023. The last word. ‘You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself’: the best descriptions of ambition in literature. The last word,...
