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  Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen into a family of doctors.
Flaubert's mother, Anne-Justine-Caroline (née Fleuriot), was the daughter of a physician; she became the most important person in the author's life.
Flaubert was prosecuted, though he escaped conviction, which was not a common result during the official censorship of the Second Empire.
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  Gustave Flaubert - MSN Encarta
Flaubert’s pessimistic view of human existence led him to believe that there was no place in the world for ideals or perfection, even though human beings could conceive of them.
Flaubert’s use of this so-called free indirect style, by which the exact thoughts of a character are reported by an objective and articulate narrator, revolutionized modern fiction.
Flaubert anticipated many of the ideas and forms of the novel in the second half of the 20th century in Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881; Bouvard and Pécuchet, 1896), an unfinished novel published after his death that expresses the novelist’s disgust with middle-class society even more than his earlier works do.
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  Gustave Flaubert - LoveToKnow 1911
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880), French novelist, was born at Rouen on the 12th of December 1821.
Flaubert had rapidly and prematurely aged since 1870, and he was quite an old man when he was carried off by a stroke of apoplexy at the age of only 58, on the 8th of May 1880.
Flaubert is a writer who must always appeal more to other authors than to the world at large, because the art of writing, the indefatigable pursuit of perfect expression, were always before him, and because he hated the lax felicities of improvization as a disloyalty to the most sacred procedures of the literary artist.
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 Gustave Flaubert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) [gystav flobɛʁ] was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists.
Flaubert was born in December 1821, in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in the Haute-Normandie Region of France.
Flaubert is a writer who tends to appeal to other writers more than to the world at large because of his deep commitment to aesthetic principles, his devotion to style, and his indefatigable pursuit of the perfect expression.
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 Gustave Flaubert at AllExperts
Flaubert was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in the Haute-Normandie Region of France.
Flaubert had aged rapidly since 1870, and he seemed quite an old man when he was carried off by apoplexy at the age of only 58 in 1880.
Flaubert is a writer who tends to appeal to other writers more than to the world at large because of his deep commitment to aesthetic principles, his devotion to style, and his indefatigable pursuit of the perfect expression.
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 Gustave Flaubert - Free Online Library
Gustave Flaubert was born into a family of doctors in Rouen.
Flaubert's mother, Anne-Justine-Caroline (née Fleuriot), was the daughter of a physician, and she became the most important person in his life.
Flaubert spent his last years in relative poverty and was called the ''hermit of Croisset.'' He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on May 8, in 1880.
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 Fiction: Gustave Flaubert   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) said that in writing, everything is a matter of style, of the distinctive way one expresses oneself.
Flaubert's life was remarkable mostly for the way he devoted himself to writing fiction.
Flaubert's devotion to perfecting his literary craft became an example to later writers, his self-discipline teaching what the novelist Julian Barnes has called "the virtue of being able to remain by yourself in your own room." Flaubert died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was buried in the cemetery at Rouen.
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 Gustave Flaubert Biography and Literary Works
Flaubert's mother, Anne-Justine-Caroline (née Fleuriot), was the daughter of a physician, and she became the most important person in his life.
Flaubert's other, non-literary life was marked by his prodigious appetite for prostitutes, which occasionally led to venereal infections.
Flaubert spent his last years in relative poverty and was called ''hermit of Croisset.'' He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on May 8, in 1880.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert’s younger sister Caroline also was often ill, and she finally died in childbirth at age twenty-one.
At age three, Flaubert began to be cared for by Julie, a servant hired by his parents, who stayed with the family until her death in 1883 and actually outlived all the Flaubert children.
Flaubert commissioned an artist to sculpt a bust of his sister Caroline, and when he arrived at the artist’s studio, he met Louise Colet, a well-known poet and a great beauty, who was posing for the sculptor.
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 Gustave Flaubert Summary
The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school in France.
Gustave Flaubert was born on Dec. 12, 1821...
The enduring literary fame of Gustave Flaubert was established all at one go, in the course of a famous trial that simultaneously brought him success and scandal.
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 Gustave Flaubert Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
Gustave Flaubert was born the son of a surgeon in Rouen in 1821.
When Flaubert presented The Temptation to Bouilhet and Du Camp in 1849 they are reputed to have advised him to throw such lyrical nonsense on the fire and write a realist novel instead.
Flaubert's obsession with style meant that composition dragged on for five years - he compared the process to "a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles".
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 Gustave Flaubert - Biography and Works
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist of the realist period, is known best for his sensational Madame Bovary (1857), a classic tale of romance and retribution.
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France on 12 December 1821, the fifth of six children in a family of doctors.
Flaubert's mother, Anne Justine Caroline (née Fleuriot), was the daughter of a physician, and was to become one of the most influential people in his life and works.
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 Flaubert, Gustave Criticism and Essays
Flaubert was born in Rouen, where his father was chief surgeon at the city hospital and his mother was a respected woman from a provincial bourgeois family.
Flaubert was occupied with the writing of Madame Bovary from 1851 to 1856.
Flaubert's defense argued successfully that the novel was indeed a moral work, and Flaubert was acquitted.
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 Gustave Flaubert le génie au service du roman
Gustave grandit à Rouen et entre en 1832 au lycée où il s'ennuiera beaucoup, mais où il découvrira très tôt le bonheur d'écrire.
Flaubert sortira acquitté de ce procès, mais supportera très mal de voir ensuite son livre connaître le succès pour de mauvaises raisons.
En 1875 pourtant, sa nièce et son mari étant ruinés, Flaubert vend ses biens pour éviter leur faillite, et George Sand, l'amie attentive, lui proposera même de racheter Croisset pour lui laisser cette retraite.
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 Gustave Flaubert - EVENE
Fils d'une famille bourgeoise, Gustave Flaubert s'est beaucoup ennuyé avant de se lancer dans l'écriture.
Gustave Flaubert décède en 1880, foudroyé par une hémorragie cérébrale.
Gustave Flaubert et Maxime Du Camp quittent Paris le 29 octobre 1849.
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 The Classical Library - Gustave Flaubert   (Site not responding. Last check: )
C’est moi." said Gustave Flaubert, describing his sense of connection with the agony and emotional suffering of his most noted heroine.
Studying briefly under his father, Flaubert’s childhood and early adulthood were marked by the atmosphere of the hospital, of mourning, and of suffering.
Although born into a bourgeois family of doctors, Flaubert’s life and writings were colored by an intense loathing for the bourgeois class and the petty self-deception which he considered to be integral to such a lifestyle.
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 Amazon.com: Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics): Books: Gustave Flaubert   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though Madame Bovary escapes Flaubert's predilection for overblown, histrionic description, his heroine is primarily a woman of gestures, a mime of the grandly operatic emotions she yearns to feel.
Flaubert may have wanted us to regard her as essentially kitsch, a creature formed by impossible reveries of blissful self-fulfillment, whether in marriage, passion or religious observance.
Flaubert seems to have had an excellent ear for the sort of platitudes that such a politician in 1840's France might have given, for the speech is very realistic.
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 Gustave Flaubert (1812-1880)
Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1812, in Rouen, France.
Flaubert also had a seizure that same year and was diagnosed with a nervous malady which caused him to lead a relatively calm life from then on.
Flaubert was also very concerned with the format of the novel; he carefully chose and scrutinized each sentence and word.
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 Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Gustave Flaubert's work is a mixture in almost equal parts of the romanticist and the realist traditions.
At the time of Flaubert's death, it was unclear whether he intended to publish the book separately (though he may have been wary of creating a scandal, as he had with his earlier Madame Bovary), or as an appendix to his unfinished novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet.
In some of his notes, it seems that Flaubert intended the dictionary to be taken as the final creation of the two protagonists of the latter novel.
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 Classic Authors: Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France.
Gustave had two siblings: a brother, nine years his senior, to whom he was never close; and a sister, whom he adored.
A sculptor had been hired to create a portrait bust of his sister; when Gustave brought her death mask to the artist, he met Louise Colet, a beautiful poet who was posing for the sculptor.
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 The Gustav Flaubert Collection - Etext Conversion Project - Nalanda Digital Library   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Flaubert's mother was the daughter of a physician, and she became the most important person in his life.
Flaubert was by nature melancholic and his perfectionism, long hours in isolation at his green covered work table with a frog inkwell, only made his life harder.
Among Flaubert's later major works is SALAMBÔ (1862), a story of the siege of Carthage in 240-237 BC by mercenaries.
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 Flaubert, Gustave. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Flaubert is regarded as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel.
Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of a romantic young woman married to a dull provincial doctor, the novel is written in a superbly controlled style.
II, 1971) and G. Wall (2002); study by V. Brombert (1966); F. Steegmuller, Flaubert and Madame Bovary (1939, rev. ed.
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 Harvard University Press: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert wrote to his mistress, Louise Colet: "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." In his books, Flaubert sought to observe that principle; but in his many impassioned letters he allowed his feelings to overflow, revealing himself in all of his human complexity.
Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm.
Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.
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 Amazon.com: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas: Books: Gustave Flaubert   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Flaubert loathed ignorance, prejudice and irrationality and he blamed much of his society's problems upon the triumph of "accepted ideas" over individual thought.
Flaubert's satirical reference work, the Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues, reveals in a marvellously condensed form the writer's attitude toward the French bourgeois society in which he was brought up.
Flaubert must have enjoyed parodying the entire concept of the "authoritative" reference work; his private compendium was arranged in alphabetical order, with ludicrous cross-references, secondary definitions (which generally contradict the first one), and a tone of pompous omniscience.
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 Gustave Flaubert
Born into a family of doctors and assumed to follow in their footsteps, Gustave Flaubert made his Grand Entrance on the Planet Earth on December 12, 1821.
Flaubert, often stricken with melancholy and depression, wrote to his Russian compatriot, ''The thought that I shall see you this winter quite at leisure delights me like the promise of an oasis.
Gustave Flaubert, the "Hermit of Croisset," spent his final years obese, in ill health, and in relative poverty.
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 Flaubert, Gustave - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE [Flaubert, Gustave], 1821-80, French novelist, regarded as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel.
Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of a romantic young woman married to a dull provincial doctor, the novel is written in a superbly controlled style.
Works of Gustave Flaubert: Critical Commentary of the Three Tales
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 Biographie de Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert évoquera cette rencontre déterminante dans les Mémoires d'un fou et les deux versions de l'Education sentimentale.
Gustave Flaubert entre en classe de philosophie en octobre et en est exclu en décembre.
Gustave Flaubert les accompagne lors de leur voyage de noces en Italie.
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