Trois Contes

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Dodo Press, 2008 - Fiction - 104 pages
Gustave Flaubert, né à Rouen le 12 décembre 1821 et mort à Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un écrivain français. Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, Gustave Flaubert a marqué la littérature française par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de réalisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des individus et de la société, et par la force de son style à travers de grands romans comme Madame Bovary (1857), L'Éducation Sentimentale (1869), Salammbô (1862), ou le recueil de nouvelles Trois Contes (1878). Le premier événement notable dans sa biographie est la rencontre à Trouville-sur-Mer, durant l'été 1836 de Élisa Schlésinger qui marquera toute sa vie: il transposera d'ailleurs cette rencontre dans L'Éducation Sentimentale, en particulier dans la page célèbre de "l'apparition" de Madame Arnoux au regard du jeune Frédéric. De 1877 à 1880, il poursuit la rédaction de Bouvard et Pécuchet, qu'il avait entamé en 1872-1874. Sa production littéraire continue avec les Trois Contes qui comporte trois nouvelles: Un coeur simple, La légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier et Hérodias.

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About the author (2008)

Born in the town of Rouen, in northern France, in 1821, Gustave Flaubert was sent to study law in Paris at the age of 18. After only three years, his career was interrupted and he retired to live with his widowed mother in their family home at Croisset, on the banks of the Seine River. Supported by a private income, he devoted himself to his writing. Flaubert traveled with writer Maxime du Camp from November 1849 to April 1851 to North Africa, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. When he returned he began Madame Bovary, which appeared first in the Revue in 1856 and in book form the next year. The realistic depiction of adultery was condemned as immoral and Flaubert was prosecuted, but escaped conviction. Other major works include Salammbo (1862), Sentimental Education (1869), and The Temptation of Saint Antony (1874). His long novel Bouvard et Pecuchet was unfinished at his death in 1880. After his death, Flaubert's fame and reputation grew steadily, strengthened by the publication of his unfinished novel in 1881 and the many volumes of his correspondence.

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