Flaubert in a sentence

Professor Lefebvre’s idea of liberalism is a bit like Flaubert’s depiction of the author as God in his universe – present everywhere, and visible nowhere.

A third pope, Pius IX, added Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” and John Stuart Mill’s book on the free market economy to the Vatican’s List of Prohibited Books during his long reign in the 19th century.

Besson gives a lot of thought in his book to what it's like to be as clever and capable as Macron, and whether he more closely resembles Balzac's Eugène de Rastignac or Flaubert's Frédéric Moreau.

Frost Magazine (FM): Your novel, Gustave Flaubert: The Ambiguity of Imagination, describes in detail the life and writing of the famous 19th century author.

An Arabic custom, first noted by French colonialists and described by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert may have influenced the French strip-tease.

Antiquarian interest was intensified following the publication of Flaubert's Salammbô in 1858.

Brooks, 27 "What Balzac started", observes Lehan, "Flaubert helped finish".

Brooks, 54 This influence shows in Flaubert's work L'éducation sentimentale which owes a debt to Balzac's Illusions Perdues.

Drawing on his youth, Flaubert next wrote L'Éducation sentimentale ( Sentimental Education ), an effort that took seven years.

Flaubert continued to act as his literary godfather.

Flaubert decisively established what most readers and writers think of as modern realist narration, and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible.

Flaubert 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.

Flaubert's correspondence with George Sand was published in 1884 with an introduction by Guy de Maupassant.

Flaubert suffered from venereal diseases most of his life.

Flaubert was a prolific letter writer, and his letters have been collected in several publications.

Flaubert was very open about his sexual activities with prostitutes in his writings on his travels.

Flaubert who loathed pretty-pretty prose would have applauded Kafka's attitude towards his tool.

Gustave Flaubert took him under his protection and acted as a kind of literary guardian to him, guiding his debut in journalism and literature.

He wrote and played himself in a comedy in 1875 (with the benediction of Flaubert), "À la feuille de rose, maison turque".

In Flaubert's correspondence he intimates this, explaining correct prose did not flow out of him and that his style was achieved through work and revision.