Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

noun

1. Gus·tave [g, y, s-, tav], 1821–80, French novelist.

Flaubert

/ flobɛr; ˈfləʊbɛə /

noun

1. FlaubertGustave18211880MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Gustave (ɡystav). 1821–80, French novelist and short-story writer, regarded as a leader of the 19th-century naturalist school. His most famous novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for which he was prosecuted (and acquitted) on charges of immorality, and L'Éducation sentimentale (1869) deal with the conflict of romantic attitudes and bourgeois society. His other major works include Salammbô (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877)

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Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”

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Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.

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James Wood reminds us again and again that Flaubert invented realism and Bloom that Shakespeare invented us.

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But he himself reproduces the same saying about Flaubert wanting to write a novel about nothing.

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Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert.

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The last thing which Flaubert desired to portray in that depressing picture was an existence in any sense artistic.

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The same may be said, in a more transitory sense, of Flaubert, the great renovator and refiner of Romanticism.

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He complains that Gautier is lacking in a concern about supernatural hocus-pocus and that Flaubert is lacking.

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He never manages the classic, I mean as Flaubert gives us in each main character: Everyman.

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One may conceivably be bored by certain pages in Flaubert, but one takes from him a solid and concrete memory, a property.

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