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  1. Signature. Gustave Flaubert ( UK: / ˈfloʊbɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / floʊˈbɛər / floh-BAIR, [1] [2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) also known as Flambert, was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.

  2. Mar 4, 2024 · 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Flauberts masterpiece.

  5. Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; 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. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the ...

  6. 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.

  7. Full Text. Overview. Madame Bovary, the debut novel by French author Gustave Flaubert, was first published as a serial in 1856 and as a novel in 1857. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a young woman who marries a country doctor and becomes disillusioned with her provincial life.

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