Flaubert
[floh-bair; French floh-ber]
- Gus·tave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/, 1821–80, French novelist.
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Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
James Wood reminds us again and again that Flaubert invented realism and Bloom that Shakespeare invented us.
But he himself reproduces the same saying about Flaubert wanting to write a novel about nothing.
Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert.
Historical Examples
In the matter of style--as Flaubert has said--the second-bests are often the better teachers.
De Libris: Prose and VerseAustin Dobson
I did not attempt a monument in the frozen manner of your Flaubert.
MelomaniacsJames Huneker
That Flaubert escaped their error only so far as by fire has been allowed.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2George Saintsbury
Flaubert, indeed, had no "outward life;" he lived only for his art.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
These expressions must be taken literally in Flaubert's case.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
Flaubert
- 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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