Gustave
Flaubert
FRENCH WRITER AND ROMANCIER
Born:12.
Dec
1821 in Rouen, Normandy, France;French
magazine were shown:
Died:
8. May
1880 in Kanteleu, France-Normandy)
Flaubert
grew up in Rouen, as a younger son of the chief doctor at the city
hospital, and experienced, as with his official residence, as was
customary, bordered to the hospital, suffering and dying there at close
range. He
was held as a talented but not very disciplined student, who preferred
his time reading and writing to spend learning. In
the summer 1836, Flaubert fell in love with the seaside resort of
Trouville-sur-Mer in a somewhat older woman, Elisa Schlesinger, which
occupied him for years as a large, unattainable love, and his writing
inspirierte.
Auf
urging of his father, he began studying law, but which he abandoned.
Yet
he made in those years long journeys, that being last on the trail ihn
1850/51
Chateau Briand in the Middle East, especially to
Egypt.
After
the return was directed at a Flaubert his widowed mother, and led to his
and her heritage is a retired. Flaubert
wrote already tirelessly since his youth, first in the style of
Romanticism. But
he put such high demands on himself that he had unpublished manuscripts
of all for many years. His
first printed work was finally started der
1851
novel Madame Bovary.
1856
novel Madame Bovary appeared in the feature pages of the Revue de
Paris. The
novel took him once a process for infringing the customs, but were
Flaubert and the magazine was
1857
thanks to the clever pleading her lawyer acquitted Flaubert. The
process worked out in the end even positive, for he helped the book
version, as it came out in 1857, a commercial success. It
represents the story of a farmer's daughter, after her marriage to a
village doctor quickly dissatisfied with her, although they loving, but
honest man, and not least because they are following the example of
novels and women's magazines a life of passion and luxury dreamed
of. Although
she manages to do by means of two love affairs and a certain level of
luxury consumption, some steps of the implementation of such a life, but
caught up again from the triviality and narrowness of their actual
conditions, until they finally overwhelmed by debt suicide begeht.
The
Bovary and the Education as
epoch-making for the development of the European novel are, due to the
idea of Flaubert, his protagonists are no longer (such as Balzac did
this) to design an exceptional person, but is considered completely
unheroic Durchschnittscharaktere.Flaubert as one of the best stylists of
the French
literature and considered a classic of the novel. Together
with Stendhal and Balzac, he forms the trinity of great realistic
narrator France. Just
like the other two he was to be received by the Académie française
not worthy.