Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), a great French critical realist novelist in the mid-19th century, was taught by Guy de Maupassant. His famous works include Madame Bovary, The Education of Emotions, The Three Stories, and Bouvard and Pecouche. He paid great attention to the perfection of art and language. Moreover, he had a profound impact on the development of literature in the late 19th and 20th centuries, especially modernist literature. He is known as "the originator of naturalist literature" and "the founder of Western modern fiction".

list of works

Madame Bovary (1856) 2. Sarambo (1867) 3. Emotional Education (1869) 4. The Temptation of St. Anthony (1874) 5. Three Stories (1877) 6. Boire and Pecouche (1880)

major classics

Madame Bovary is a famous and representative work of Flaubert, a master of French realist literature in the 19th century.

It tells the story of an aristocratic-educated peasant girl, Emma. She despises her husband Bovary, a village doctor, and dreams of a legendary love. But instead of bringing her happiness, her two-time affair made her the object of exploitation by loan sharks. In the end, she accumulated debts and was desperate, so she had to take poison and commit suicide. Flaubert, with a seemingly indifferent attitude, revealed the causes and consequences of this tragedy very "objectively", stating the responsibility that society cannot shirk.

What is written here is a peach incident that is common in life and literature, but the author's brushwork perceives sensitive areas that have not yet been touched by others. Emma's death was not only her own tragedy, but also a tragedy of her era. The author describes the process of the protagonist's emotional degeneration with delicate brushwork, and the author strives to find the social root cause of this tragedy.