Kupferstich von Flaubert, 10 Jahre alt. Gustave Flaubert (12. Dezember 1821 - 8. Mai 1880) war ein einflussreicher französischer Schriftsteller, der vielleicht der bedeutendste Vertreter des literarischen Realismus seines Landes war. Er besuchte das Lycée Pierre Corneille und un nicht verlassen
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Engraving of Flaubert, age 10. Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille, and did not leave until 1840, when he went to Paris to study law. He was an indifferent student and found the city distasteful. In 1846, after an attack of epilepsy, he left Paris and abandoned the study of law. His first finished work was November, a novella, which was completed in 1842. In 1850, Flaubert began work on Madame Bovary. The novel, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856. The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted. When Madame Bovary appeared in book form, it met with a warm reception. It is now considered his masterpiece, as well as a seminal work of realism and one of the most influential novels ever written. His other major works include Salammbô (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877). Flaubert believed in, and pursued, the principle of finding "le mot juste" (the right word), which he considered as the key means to achieve quality in literary art. He published much less prolifically than was the norm for his time and never got near the pace of a novel a year, as his peers often achieved during their peaks of activity. As a writer he was nearly equal parts romantic and realist and members of various school trace their origins to his work. Flaubert suffered from venereal diseases most of his life. His health declined and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1880 at the age of 58. He has been admired or written about by almost every major literary personality of the 20th century, including philosophers and sociologists.
