History Creator / GustaveFlaubert

* AdaptationalJerkass: Flaubert's portrayal of Julian in ''The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller'' was a hunter whose bloodlust came to be when he slew a mouse for breaking his concentration during Mass.

* ThePollyanna: Felicité in ''A Simple Heart'' is the perfect picture of the Pollyanna. Friends and relatives die around her right and left, and yet she still puts on a happy face, droping everything to help anyone who needs it.

* Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881)
* Dictionary of Received Ideas (1911)

* ThePollyanna: Felicité in ''Un Coeur Simple'' is the perfect picture of the Pollyanna. Friends and relatives die around her right and left and she still puts on a happy face. She drops everything to help anyone who needs it.

-->--'''Gustave Flaubert''', Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantefie (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Dictionary of Received Ideas was posthumously created by compiling notes Flaubert never published. However, it is only the glimpse of a completed work. It is similar to The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce in cynicism, but different in that it ironically repeats cliches common to bourgeois Frenchmen of Flaubert's time.

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->''"It is a principle of mine that a writer must not be his own theme. The artist in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen. And then, Art must rise above personall affections and neurotic susceptibilities!"''

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is known today by many labels that he would despise today: his realism, a term he was always skeptical and ambiguous about, his harshness to his characters (despite the fact that he famously stated that he identified with his characters to a painful degree) and for his dry realist setting despite his obsessive, fevered imaginings of the Ancient World in his historical fiction.

--> ''"One must not always think that feeling is everything. [[ThePerfectionist Art is nothing without form]]."''

--> ''"Madame Bovary, c'est moi!"''

* VagabondBuddies: Bouvard and Pécuchet are more or less this.

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!!Works by Flaubert with their own pages include:
* ''Literature/MadameBovary''
* ''Literature/{{Salammbo}}''
* ''Literature/SentimentalEducation''

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is known today by many labels that he would despise today, namely he's famous for his realism, a term he was always skeptical and ambiguous about, for his harshness to his characters, despite the fact that he famously stated that he identified with his characters to a painful degree and for his dry realist setting, despite his obsessive, fevered imaginings of the Ancient World in his historical fiction.

Flaubert's writing style is famous for its economy and its precision, there is very few words wasted on scene setting, character description and plot, its eye for sociological and psychological detail and for the very distinct tone of narration which, while striving to erase sentiment towards characters, often carried with it a highly ironic and witty personality, far from the scientific and sociological approach of his disciples and imitators. He was also one of the first writers who put a high weight on style, correct discipline of writing and famed for obsessing over "le mot juste". He was noted for his obsessive research into background and history, in a way becoming a precursor to Creator/JamesJoyce who always cited Flaubert as one of his favorites.

''Literature/MadameBovary'' of course is his most famous, widely read and influential work. When it was published in serial form, the suspected lurid nature of the story, a fairly non-judgmental story of a wife committing adultery, provoked controversy and Flaubert was called to trial where he defended his work. After being cleared, the book was subsequently published and became a success partly out of scandal and partly out of literary merit. Largely due to SmallReferencePools, ''Madame Bovary'' is Flaubert's most famous book with his follow-up works ''Literature/{{Salammbo}}'' and ''Literature/SentimentalEducation'' not being as famous today, though the former was a classic for the 19th Century.

Because of his obsessive research, extended writing time, Flaubert only completed three novels in his lifetime. In addition to this, he wrote a collection of short stories ''Three Tales'' and a Verse Drama ''The Temptation of Saint Anthony'' that was a fevered work on religion and philosophy on the line of Goethe's ''Faust''. He was a regular letter-writer throughout his life and collected editions of his letters are highly prized by writers. After his death, his posthumous works ''Bouvard et Pecuchet'' and ''The Dictionary of Recieved Ideas'' have also gotten their due.

'''Gustave Flaubert''' (1821-1880) is known today by many labels that he would despise today, namely he's famous for his realism, a term he was always skeptical and ambiguous about, for his harshness to his characters, despite the fact that he famously stated that he identified with his characters to a painful degree and for his dry realist setting, despite his obsessive, fevered imaginings of the Ancient World in his historical fiction.

* ''Literature/MadameBovary'' (1857)
* ''Literature/{{Salammbo}}'' (1862)
* ''Literature/SentimentalEducation'' (1869)

! Bibliography

''Literature/MadameBovary'' of course is his most famous, widely read and influential work. When it was published in serial form, the suspected lurid nature of the story, a fairly non-judgmental story of a wife committing adultery, provoked controversy and Flaubert was called to trial where he defended his work. After being cleared, the book was subsequently published and became a success partly out of scandal and partly out of literary merit. Largely due to SmallReferencePools, ''Madame Bovary'' is Flaubert's most famous book with his follow-up works ''Literature/{{Salammbo}} and ''Literature/SentimentalEducation'' not being as famous today, though the former was a classic for the 19th Century.

''Literature/MadameBovary'' of course is his most famous, widely read and influential work. When it was published in serial form, the suspected lurid nature of the story, a fairly non-judgmental story of a wife committing adultery, provoked controversy and Flaubert was called to trial where he defended his work. After being cleared, the book was subsequently published and became a success partly out of scandal and partly out of literary merit. Largely due to SmallReferencePools, ''Madame Bovary'' is Flaubert's most famous book with his follow-up works ''Literature/{{Salammbo}} and ''Literature/{{SentimentalEducation}}'' not being as famous today, though the former was a classic for the 19th Century.

* ''Literature/{{Salammbo}} (1862)