Gustave Flaubert
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In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
2) Salammbo
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French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...
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Félicité is a French maid, who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, Félicité is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives.
In nineteenth-century France, Félicité works as a loyal housemaid to her mistress, Madame Aubain. She tends to her two children and is a constant source of support for the family....
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Par un chaud dimanche d'été, près du bassin du port de l'Arsenal, sur le boulevard Bourdon, à Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idée d'écrire leur nom dans leur chapeau : « Alors ils se considérèrent. ». Tombés sous le charme l'un de l'autre, Bouvard et Pécuchet découvrent que non seulement ils exercent le même...
5) Trois contes
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Une édition de référence de Trois Contes de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Elle avait eu, comme une autre, son histoire d'amour. […]
Un soir du mois d'août (elle avait alors dix-huit ans), ils l'entraînèrent à l'assemblée de Colleville. Tout de suite, elle fut étourdie, stupéfaite par le tapage des ménétriers, les lumières dans les arbres, la bigarrure des costumes, les dentelles,...
6) Three Tales
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First published in French in 1877, "Three Tales" is a collection of three short stories by the celebrated French novelist Gustave Flaubert. The first story in this collection "A Simple Soul" is a story of love and spiritual awakening seen through the simple and apparently unremarkable life of a servant girl. While she has little materially, she retains her ability to love and is devoted to others. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" is an...
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In Three Short Works, three character-driven stories follow each protagonist as they attempt to navigate the trials and tribulations of life, death, love and loss. Flaubert presents a powerful combination of realism and romanticism that jumps off the page.
Three Short Works consists of three distinct stories. "The Dance of Death" centers on the plight of the Grim Reaper or Death, as he complains about his difficult job and unenviable title. In "The...
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert - "The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Historical Novel)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a historical novel. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in the Egyptian desert, a theme often repeated in medieval and modern art. It is written in the form of a play script. It details one...
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L'éducation sentimentale est un roman de Gustave Flaubert, inspiré de ses expériences amoureuses. Il retrace la vie de Frédéric Moreau, jeune étudiant qui veut intégrer la haute société. Frédéric quitte Paris pour Nogent-sur-Seine à bord d'un bateau. Il y rencontre le couple Arnoux, et tombe éperdument amoureux de Madame Arnoux. Une fois arrivé, il retrouve Charles Deslauriers, son meilleur ami et lui raconte son coup de foudre avec...
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The last work written by Flaubert that was not quite complete by his death in 1880, "Bouvard and Pecuchet" is his characteristically satirical work revolving around two Parisian copy-clerks. Though they meet on a park bench in the middle of a hot summer day, their friendship grows to a remarkable degree, so much so that when one receives an unexpected inheritance, they both decide to dedicate themselves to the exploration of ideas in the countryside....
11) Salammb
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Extrait : "C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar. Les soldats qu'il avait commandés en Sicile se donnaient un grand festin pour célébrer le jour anniversaire de la bataille d'Eryx, et comme le maître était absent et qu'ils se trouvaient nombreux, ils mangeaient et buvaient en pleine liberté. Les capitaines, portant des cothurnes de bronze, s'étaient placés dans le chemin du milieu..."
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12) Madame Bovary
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La opinión de Baudelaire sobre Madame Bovary es, sin duda, la que sigue manteniéndose hoy. Para él, como para nosotros ahora, Madame Bovary es una obra de arte. El artículo, que publica en la revista L'Artiste, en aquel, año de 1857, es un modelo de inteligencia crítica: "Una novela, ¡y qué novela! La más imparcial, la más leal". Él es el primero, y durante bastante tiempo el único, en afirmar que la dimensión moral del texto es secundaria,...
13) A Simple Heart
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The story of "A Simple Heart" is simply the story of an obscure life, that of a poor country girl, devout but mystical, devoted without exaltation and tender as fresh bread.
She loves successively a man, the children of her mistress, a nephew, an old man whom she cares for and then her parrot, when the parrot is dead, she has it stuffed and, dying in turn, she confuses the parrot with the Holy Spirit.
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«T'aperçois-tu que je deviens moraliste! Est-ce un signe de vieillesse? Mais je tourne certainement à la haute comédie. J'ai quelquefois des prurits atroces d'engueuler les humains et je le ferai à quelque jour, dans dix ans d'ici, dans quelque long roman à cadre large; en attendant, une vieille idée m'est revenue, à savoir celle de mon Dictionnaire des idées reçues.» Lettre de Flaubert à Louise Colet, 17 décembre 1852.
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Bouvard y Pécuchet, dos pequeños oficinistas parisinos, descubrieron que sentían el mismo aversión por su vida mediocre. El legado de Bouvard llega en el momento adecuado para permitirles cambiarlo: se instalan en una granja en Normandía y se dedican a experimentos agrícolas de todo tipo, así como a estudios experimentales en campos tan variados como la química, la astronomía, la arqueología o el espiritismo. En esta novela inconclusa, Flaubert...
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El espectáculo que nos entrega Flaubert es la historia de un joven provinciano, idealista y enamoradizo que se desdibuia en el devenir de sus días en París entre miserias personales, desilusiones cobradas con bajezas y la pudiente sociedad burguesa retratada en sus fiestas extravagantes, amoríos, adulterios... Al final, el desencanto de una vida.
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"Sin duda habrá alegría sobre la tierra cuando ese vampiro mentiroso e hipócrita que todos llaman civilización termine de morir. Dejaremos el manto real, el cetro, los diamantes, el palacio que se derrumba, la ciudad que cae, para volver a juntarnos con la yegua y la loba. Tras haber pasado su vida en los palacios, gastado sus pies sobre las baldosas de las grandes ciudades, el hombre irá a morir a los bosques."
En 1838, a los diecisiete años,...
18) Salambo
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This compelling portrait of obsessive love is drawn against the backdrop of ancient Carthage after a fierce battle. It is the story of the beautiful high priestess Salambo, who beguiles the leader of the invading army and sets in motion a horrific tragedy. Stylistically, it is one of Flaubert's more colorful and romantic ventures.
19) Bibliomanía
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Mucho se ocupó el siglo XIX de la mente humana. Fue el tiempo en el que nació la psiquiatría y el psicoanálisis y en el que varios estudiosos, sobre todo galos se preguntaron si la escritura no es la huella del delirio solitario. En 1934, Raymond Queneau buscó editorial para su manuscrito En los confines de las tinieblas que es una antología de los alienados franceses del siglo XIX que fueron publicados. No fue el primer intento, pero sí el...
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"Madame Bovary" is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste...