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Jun 27, 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.
Jun 22, 2024 · Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was tried and acquitted on charges of ‘immorality’ following the publication of ‘Madame Bovary’
Jul 9, 2024 · Gustave Flaubert — ‘Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.’
5 days ago · July 11, 2024 by Jan Herman Leave a Comment. Three excerpts from the recently published edition of The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, seem to me an apt commentary on our own time. Mankind is displaying nothing new. It’s irremediable wretchedness has embittered me ever since my youth.
4 days ago · In 1876, writing to his friend Gertrude Tennant, Gustave Flaubert set down a principle that artists and writers should live by: Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d’être violent et original dans vos œuvres. (Be regular in your life and ordinary as a bourgeois, in order to be violent and original in your work.)
3 days ago · Pour les 200 ans de la naissance de Gustave Flaubert, la Médiathèque François Villon vous propose un florilège de lectures d’œuvres de l'auteur ou autour de ce dernier. Ici après une...
Jul 2, 2024 · Literary and music critic. Member, Academy of Fine Arts, Institute of France, 1965–67. Author of Gustave Flaubert, l'homme et l'oeuvre; Guy de Maupassant; and others.
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