Maitre flaubert biography
Gustave flaubert biography!
Maitre flaubert biography
Flaubert, Gustave
BORN: 1821, Rouen, France
DIED: 1880, Croisset, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Fiction, drama
MAJOR WORKS:
Madame Bovary (1857)
Salammbô (1863)
Sentimental Education (1870)
Overview
The most influential French novelist of the nineteenth century, Flaubert is remembered primarily for the stylistic precision and dispassionate rendering of psychological detail found in his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857).
Although his strict objectivity is often associated with the realist and naturalist movements, he objected to this classification, and his artistry indeed defies such easy categorization. Flaubert struggled throughout his career to overcome a romantic tendency toward fantastic imaginings and love of the exotic past.
A meticulous craftsman, he aimed to achieve a prose style “as rhythmical as verse and as precise as the language of science.”
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
A Tumultuous Century in French History France duri