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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for BiographyA New York Times Notable BookPublishers Weekly Best Book of the YearIn this riveting landmark.
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Flaubert: A Biography - Hardcover

Review

[A] superb, full-length portrait...Flaubert is a superb biography, not least because it gives us the portrait of a man embedded in his country and his age even as he rebels against its values and mores. Brown is masterly at drawing the background to his subject, social and political, writing with authority and an eye for the telling detail that compel fascination as well as respect. (Caroline Moore The Spectator 2006-06-03)

At last, a biography commensurate with the outsize personality and genius of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Brown, author of an acclaimed biography of Zola, offers a tantalizing, penetrating study that embeds the author of Madame Bovary in his time and place: a tumultuous Paris during the revolution of 1848 and the period of expansion and greed known as the Second Empire...Rich, full of passion and tragedy, overflowing with keenly portrayed characters, this superb biography gives us an unforgettable portrait of a literary master: exuberant yet anxious, brilliant yet full of self-doubt, a man who best savored the wo

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Gustave Flaubert died in 1880, yet his characters, his novels and his stories live on in the popular literary imagination with the same authority as those of Shakespeare and Joyce. An Egyptian hermit tormented by voluptuous devilish visions; a melancholy doctor’s wife eating arsenic to escape debt and despair; an old countrywoman who worships a stuffed parrot. Ancient or modern, sublime or ludicrous, Flaubert’s characters are visionaries. They travel towards the dark places of the mind and their fate prompts our pity, fear and laughter.

In this, the most acclaimed biography of Flaubert to be written for many years, Geoffrey Wall brilliantly recreates the life and times of a writer of immeasurable talent and influence – a writer who wrote to within an inch of his life and in the process left a body of work that stands comparison with the greatest writers of the age – and investigates why it is that the author of Madame Bovary still exerts such a hold upon our imagination.

“Extraordinarily accomplished …What really marks this biography out as except

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Biography of Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert's family

Gustave was born on December 12, 1821, in the hospital of Rouen.His father, Achille-Cléophas, was its chief surgeon.Caroline, her mother, née Fleuriot, is from Pont-Audemer.Her brother Achille, the eldest of the siblings, is then eight years old.Three years later, Caroline, his beloved sister, his playmate, was born.Their correspondence testifies to their closeness.Flaubert had great affection for his sister, whom he taught and who practised the arts, drawing and piano.When Gustave was four years old, a nanny, Julie, entered the service of the Flauberts.She remained there for fifty years as a servant.The Flaubert family is housed in the official house of the Hôtel-Dieu, which today houses the Flaubert Museum and History of Medicine.

In 1839, Achille Flaubert, a brilliant student, successfully completed his medical thesis in Paris.He married Julie Lormier a few months later.Gustave is excluded from the college in December.At eighteen years old, he will have to prepare his baccalaureate alone.A well-known surgeon, Achille