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Gustave Flaubert

Overview

Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR; French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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Philosophers who discussed Gustave Flaubert

• René Girard
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Marquis de Sade
• Voltaire
• Iris Murdoch
• Apollonius of Tyana
• Allan Bloom

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Place in the tradition

Part of Modernism.

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