Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈfloʊbɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / floʊˈbɛər / floh-BAIR; [1][2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and ...
Gustave Flaubert 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. Flaubert’s father, Achille
The TV series may be cancelled, but if you’re still hankering for a desperate housewife you can’t do better than Madame Bovary. The 1856 French classic novel by Gustave Flaubert seems so current that ...
The Globe and Mail: Book review: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
I have read English translations of Madame Bovary four times now, and until this one, by Lydia Davis, I always appreciated Gustave Flaubert's novel with a somewhat removed feeling - stamped it as ...
There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...
The Globe and Mail: Madame Bovary: Adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel misses mark
Filmmakers have been trying to capture Madame Bovary on the screen ever since the movies learned to talk. But, although film technology has improved, the challenge of giving a good account of Gustave ...