Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

/ floʊˈbɛər; French floʊˈbɛr /

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noun

Gus·tave

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

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How to use Flaubert in a sentence

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
The last thing which Flaubert desired to portray in that depressing picture was an existence in any sense artistic.
Vie de Bohme|Orlo Williams
The same may be said, in a more transitory sense, of Flaubert, the great renovator and refiner of Romanticism.
Vie de Bohme|Orlo Williams
He complains that Gautier is lacking in a concern about supernatural hocus-pocus and that Flaubert is lacking.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
He never manages the classic, I mean as Flaubert gives us in each main character: Everyman.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
One may conceivably be bored by certain pages in Flaubert, but one takes from him a solid and concrete memory, a property.
Instigations|Ezra Pound

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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