Flaubert
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- proper noun
- /floʊˈbɛr/
- Gustave Flaubert is widely regarded as one of the most important novelists in French literature.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Flaubert's Madame Bovary
- French novelist Gustave Flaubert
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Watch on YouTubeBut it's a quote from Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary.
- But it's a quote from Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary.
- I think he's my favorite and, and Flaubert, you know, that kind of concision.
- She sought the absolute, like Flaubert, but the absolute in the ephemeral.
- But no, Joyce Beckett, you know, I mean, you and Sartre, I think is, you know, and then there there's Flaubert.
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The "corrosive dissolvent" that changes the reader's very notion of reality, then, is Flaubert's handling of time.
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It's not nearly as elegant as Flaubert's real style.
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- Well, you were reading Flaubert.
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Because there was Robert Flaubert, standing before her, as real as flesh and bone.
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Flaubert writes with such great precision, doesn't he?
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In the year 2000, a Tolstoy or a Flaubert wouldn't have stood a chance in the United States.
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In an analysis of Flaubert's novel Salammbo, the dominant turns out to be a useful concept.
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Much could be made of this quotation from recent critical perspectives on Flaubert's narrative practice.
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Biographers agree that in 1850, while traveling in the Middle East, Flaubert contracted syphilis.
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According to Bakhtin, Flaubert's Madame Bovary offers a clear example of the chronotope of the provincial town:
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A French writer from the 1800s who wrote Madame Bovary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flaubert is a French family name, best known as the 'last name' of the novelist Gustave Flaubert. A helpful way to remember it is to think of it like 'Shakespeare' or 'Tolstoy', a name that points to a famous writer. That's why Flaubert refers to the French novelist and his works.