Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) is considered to be one of the most important French novelists of the nineteenth century. He’s most well known for his novel Madame Bovary, and for his desire to write “a book about nothing,” a novel in which all external elements, especially the presence of the author, have been eliminated, leaving nothing but style itself. Often considered a member of the naturalist school, Flaubert despised categorizations of this sort, and in novels like Bouvard and Pecuchet demonstrates the inaptness of this label. In addition to these two novels, he is also the author of A Sent
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Adam Foulds
A book that changed my life. It taught me a novel could be as thoroughly composed and intense as poetry and opened an important door for me.
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Madame Bovary (3)
Madame Bovary is regarded as one of the most important French novels of the 19th century and as Flaubert’s most important work.
Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life (0)
Although unfinished during Flaubert’s lifetime, Bouvard and Pecuchet is now considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces. In his own words, the novel is “a kid of encyclopedia made into farce…A book in which I shall spit out my bile.” At the center of this novel are Bouvard and Pecuchet, two retired clerks who se…
A Simple Soul (0)
Like every other woman, she had had an affair of the heart. Her father, who was a mason, was killed by falling from a scaffolding. Then her mother died and her sisters went their different ways; a farmer took her in, and while she was quite small, let her keep cows in the fields. She was clad in miserable rags, beaten f…
Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (1922) (0)
First published in 1869, this novel offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a crucial period of European history. Flaubert combines intricate political and social upheaval with a close scrutiny of individual motives to produce one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Salammbo (0)
It was at Megara a suburb of Carthage in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx and as the master was away and they were numerous they ate and drank with perfect freedom. (Excerpt)
Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives (0)
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succA]s de scandale in its day, "Madame B…
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (0)
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to con…
Salammbo (0)
It was at Megara a suburb of Carthage in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx and as the master was away and they were numerous they ate and drank with perfect freedom. (Excerpt)
