Flobert Biography

The literature of the 20th century Gustav Flobert, a brief biography of Gustav Flobert was born on December 12 in the family of a famous surgeon, spent all his childhood and youth at the hospital, where his father’s apartment was located. Flaubert himself had thought that he had been prepared for another field, although he began to write already at a teenager.

Interest in life, but more death, which largely determined the semantic core of future works, originated here, in the walls of the Rouen hospital, when a boy, secretly from his parents, Gustav made his way into the opening hall and watched the bodies disfigured by death. Having received their original education at Ruan Royal College, in the year Flobert goes to Paris to study the right.

This decision was not dictated by the heart: jurisprudence did not occupy the young man at all. In the most romantic capital of the world, he lives more than solitary, he has practically no comrades. Having studied for three years in the Sorbonne, Flobert was not able to pass the translated exam. In the same year, he was diagnosed with a disease that resembles epilepsy in symptoms.

Doctors urgently recruit Gustava to lead a sedentary lifestyle, and constant seizures, the salvation from which he saw only in the reception of hot baths, eager him. To find salvation from the disease, the future writer goes to Italy. Flobert takes in the care of the daughter of her sister and her husband, and also decides to return home, to her mother, in order to overcome the pain of loss with her.

Together with her, they settled a small, picturesque estate in Croiss, near Ruan. From this moment, the whole life of Flaubert will be associated with this place, which he left only twice for a long time. The inheritance received allowed Flaubert not to know material concerns, not having an official service, he worked on his works daily and painstakingly. In line with the then romantic literature, his first stories were written in the literature: “Memoirs of the Madman” and “November” but in the novel “Education of feelings” that had not seen the light, work on which lasted from the software, notes of realism are clearly traced.

The year dates back to the beginning of his relationship with Louise Kolya, a well -known writer in those days, his acquaintance with whom he brought back in Paris. This novel, at eight years long, was the most long affection in the life of Flaubert. Due to the fact that the writer was very afraid to convey his ailment by inheritance, he, not wanting to continue his family, did not make his hand and heart proposals, although he invariably enjoyed popularity among women.

Glory collapsed on Flaubert when, in the year in the magazine “Revoy de Paris”, his first novel “Madame Bovari”, who is the hallmark of the writer, saw the light. Painfully, day after day, for five years, pondering every word written, Flobert wrote a book about how an illusion can destroy reality. The plot is simple: an unremarkable, more than ordinary bourgeoisie, in order to give the colors of his life, turns on two intrigues, not noticing that a loving person has always been nearby.

The novel, which ended with the suicide of the heroine, made a lot of noise. The author and editors of the magazine were involved in court for immorality. The sensational trial ended with an excuses. But in the year, the Vatican introduced “Madame Bovary” to the “index of prohibited books”. The finest psychology in revealing the image of the main character became a real discovery in the literature and largely determined the path of development of the entire European novel.

In the year, Flobert makes a trip to Africa, bringing from Voyage not only impressions, but also his second novel “Salambo”, whose action transfers the reader to ancient Carthage, making him a witness to the love of the daughter of the military leader and leader of the barbarians. The historical reliability and respect for each detail of the narrative allowed this book to take a worthy place among historical novels.

The third novel of the writer “Education of feelings” is dedicated to the topic of “Lost Generation”. Until his death, the writer mastered new literary horizons: he tried himself as a playwright, actively used biblical plots. For eight years, Flobert devoted to the novel Buvar and Beijes, who remained incomplete because of the death of the writer. Exhausted by the disease, Flaubert died of an apoplexy stroke in the year.