Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

/ floʊˈbɛər; French floʊˈbɛr /

noun

Gus·tave

[gys-tav] /güsˈtav/, 1821–80, French novelist.

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Examples from the Web for flaubert

Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
James Wood reminds us again and again that Flaubert invented realism and Bloom that Shakespeare invented us.
John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature|Malcolm Forbes|November 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But he himself reproduces the same saying about Flaubert wanting to write a novel about nothing.
The New Fellini: Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’|Jimmy So|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert.
The Art of Digital Correspondence|Matthew Walther|May 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Then, when all your work is done, read what has been written with the microscopic eyes of a Flaubert.
How to Write a Novel|Anonymous
"Very true, sir; you are quite right, sir," the colonel assented; he wondered who Flaubert was.
The March Family Trilogy, Complete|William Dean Howells
They characterize the Norman of those times as faithfully as do the romances of Flaubert and the contes of Maupassant to-day.
Rambles in Normandy|Francis Miltoun
Turgeniev once wrote to Flaubert, "There is no longer any artist of the present time who is not also a critic."
Interpreters|Carl Van Vechten
Think of such an accomplished practitioner as the late M. Brunetière, writing as he did of Flaubert and Baudelaire.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks|James Huneker

British Dictionary definitions for flaubert

Flaubert

/ (ˈfləʊbɛə, French flobɛr) /

noun

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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