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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.
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.
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.
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. Summer 1836: Meeting of Élisa Schlésinger in Trouville. December 1839: Flaubert is dismissed from the Collège Royal de Rouen.
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...
Shoulder to shoulder with the greatest Western novelists, Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist, story writer and a playwright. He is the much celebrated author of the scandalous Madame Bovary (1857) and one of the most influential novelists of his time who wrote fiction in a naturally realistic manner.
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