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A personalidade literária de Flaubert, dotada de um agudo senso crítico que o distanciou do exaltado gosto romântico da época, levou-o a tornar-se um dos maiores prosadores da França no século XIX. O romance "Madame Bovary", a sua obra-prima, levou cinco anos a escrever e deu origem...

De liefde moet `als een orkaan uit de hemel komen , vindt Emma Rouault, die op het meisjespensionaat gezwijmeld heeft bij het lezen van de uiterst dweperige geschriften die daar de ronde deden. Maar haar behoefte aan een vurige liefde wordt niet vervuld in haar huwelijk met een goedmoedige plattelandsdokter...

"November", ein Frühwerk Flauberts, kreist um den Eros als magisch-betäubende Kraft. Der damals einundzwanzigjährige Autor erzählt in halb träumerisch-romantischer, halb realistischer Perspektive vom erwachenden Liebesverlangen eines Jugendlichen. Die Liebe zur unerreichbaren Frau ergießt...

La protagonista, Emma Bovary, donna di provincia, che dalla vita si aspettava tanto, insoddisfatta della sua famiglia, del suo modesto marito che pure la ricopre d'amore, e persino della sua graziosa bambina, sente il bisogno di evadere e di trovare al di fuori dello squallore quotidiano gli ideali...

The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences including the romantic passion on his own life. 'I want to write the moral history of the...

Extrait : "Le jour de l'année 1832 où meurt à Paris, rue de Harlay, Jean-Dominique Blanqui, l'ancien conventionnel devenu sous-préfet de l'Empire, tombé à la retraite obscure et à la médiocrité de fortune, à défaut d'un dénombrement de biens meubles et immeubles, il pourrait être procédé...

America is the land of prodigies! Everything there assumes gigantic proportions, which startle the imagination and confound the reason. Mountains, rivers, lakes and streams, all are carved on a sublime pattern. There is a river of North America—not like the Danube, Rhine, or Rhone, whose banks are...

BnF collection ebooks - "Le Ier novembre 1876, je quittais (sans doute pour toujours) la maison qui m'avait vu naître. Cruelle ironie du sort, puisque j'avais cru y vivre et y mourir. Mes malheureux parents étaient navrés ; ma mère, surtout, me fit l'observation que je ne devais pas partir...

A Promising Pupil. On the 15th of September, 1840, about six o'clock in the morning, the Ville de Montereau, just on the point of starting, was sending forth great whirlwinds of smoke, in front of the Quai St. Bernard. People came rushing on board in breathless haste. The traffic was obstructed by casks,...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert’s literary career. Includes “The Dance of Death,” “The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller,” and “A Simple Soul.”

One of Flaubert's earliest writings, but published only after his death, Memoirs of a Madman presents us with a young man as he reflects - alternating between musings on the present and memories of the past - on the years that have brought him to "madness", recalling the innocence of his boyhood, the...

In A Simple Heart (A Simple Soul), the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's...

Extrait : "Le Travail annuel d'une nation est le fond primitif qui fournit à sa consommation annuelle toutes les choses nécessaires et commodes à la vie ; et ces choses sont toujours ou le produit immédiat de ce travail, ou achetées des autres nations avec ce produit." À PROPOS...