name: Gustave Flaubert
birth_date: 1821-12-12 00:00:00
death_date: 1880-05-08 00:00:00
genres: Fiction
influences: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ivan Turgenev, François-René de Chateaubriand, Lord Byron, Miguel de Cervantes, Lord, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo
avg_rating: 3.71
ratings_count: 419613
about: Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist  Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer  Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist  Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer  Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. ...more