FLAUBERT Definition & Meaning

Flaubert

[ floh-bair; French floh-ber ]

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�ҳܲ�·�ٲ�� [g, y, s-, tav], 1821–80, French novelist.

Flaubert

/ ˈfləʊbɛə; flobɛr /

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FlaubertGustave18211880MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Gustave (ɡystav). 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'Éducation sentimentale (1869) deal with the conflict of romantic attitudes and bourgeois society. His other major works include ��ô (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877)

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Spuck, 54, is the brand-new artistic director of the Staatsballett, Germany’s largest — and currently most beleaguered — ballet company, and the dancers were rehearsing a scene from his full-length ballet “Bovary,” based on the Flaubert novel.

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He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

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She was visited in her dressing room by Gustave Flaubert, while Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses, and Sarah Bernhardt.”

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“Sue me for not being Flaubert,” he told People magazine.

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At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”

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