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Flaubert Gustave . 1821--80, French novelist and short- story writer, regarded as a leader of the 19th-century naturalist school. His most famous novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for which he was prosecuted (and acquitted) on charges of immorality, and L'?ducation sentimentale (1869) deal with the conflict of romantic attitudes and bourgeois society. His other major works include Salammb? (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While Bellow himself does not regard Augie March as a fully realized work of art, he does see it as the novel in which he succeeded in extricating himself from the taut formalism, the Flaubertian pursuit of exactitude, that characterized his first two books and a breakthrough to a more elastic fictional mode, one capable of registering and exploring a wider range of experience. The gap between the two gives rise to the familiar Flaubertian irony" (VanderWolk 276-77). |
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