Gustave Flaubert
(Rouen, France, 1821 - Croisset, id., 1880) French writer was a contemporary of Baudelaire, and as he occupies a key position in nineteenth-century literature. In his time rejected (for moral reasons) and admired (by its literary force) at the same time, today is considered one of the greatest novelists of his century.
was shy and extremely sensitive and arrogant even had a strong tendency to loneliness and social withdrawal. The same inconsistencies marked his physical appearance had a robust but his health was not good since childhood and suffered from a neurosis.
son of a doctor, the early passion Gustave Flaubert in literature, initiated in it at the age of eleven, is evident in the small literary magazine Hummingbird, which drafted in full, and in which a diffuse but somewhat surprising recognize the issues that develop adult writer.
studied law in Paris. He traveled on foot through the regions of Touraine, Brittany and Normandy. On this trip followed by another, more important (1849-1851), Egypt, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece and Italy, whose memory would serve him later for his novel Salammbo.
Except during your trip, Gustave Flaubert spent his life on his property in Croisset, devoted to their work writer. Between 1847 and 1856 remained stable, but passionate relationship with the poet Louise Colet, although his great love was undoubtedly Elisa Schlesinger, who inspired the character Marie Arnoux in Sentimental Education that was never her lover.
trips played an important role in their learning as a novelist, given the value he attached to the observation of reality. Flaubert left nothing in his works at the mercy of pure inspiration, hard work and precision of his prose style. He was not interested in her writing to betray personal experience that fed, or allowed to pour their own opinions.
His first published novel, and for many his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1856), whose protagonist, an unhappily married woman who is a victim of his own romantic dreams, signifies, in spite of his own mediocrity, all the frustration, as Flaubert, had produced nineteenth century, the century that he hated to identify him with the meanness and stupidity that characterized his view of the bourgeoisie.
satire of the same time involving the whole production, including a brilliant, albeit unfinished, Dictionary of platitudes. The publication of Madame Bovary, which marked his literary consecration fast, it also created serious problems. Attacked by moralists, who condemned the treatment that was the subject of adultery, was even brought to trial, which it decided to start a fantasy draft and Baroque, as far as possible from their reality: Salammbo recounting the impossible love between a princess and a barbarian mercenary in the former Carthage.
His next major work, The Sentimental Education (1869), was, however, the closest to his own experience, it is proposed to describe the hopes and disappointments of the generation of the revolution of 1848. His last major work, Bouvard and Pecuchet, which would be unfinished at his death, is a satire at once terrible and tender understanding of the ideal of the Enlightenment.
The abundance of work later have been devoted to Gustave Flaubert, and in particular to his style, confirms the pivotal role in the evolution of novelistic genre until the mid-twentieth century. Flaubert
aged rapidly since 1870, and it seemed an old man when he died in 1880 at the age of 58. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Croisset, but was buried in the family vault in the cemetery of Rouen. In 1890 he opened at the Rouen museum Chapu a beautiful monument dedicated to the memory of Flaubert.
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