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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert
The 19th-century French writer Gustave Flaubert is known for his painstaking pursuit of literary perfection. His novels, written in the literary style known as realism and characterized by keen observation and attention to detail, are counterbalanced by romantic language and form. Flaubert’s most famous novel, Madame Bovary (1857), is one of the most important works in French literature.
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French Literature; Novel; Flaubert, Gustave
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