The Horror of Life: Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Anna Otten ◽  
Roger L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Jules De Goncourt ◽  
Alphonse Daudet

scholarly journals A forma é o real: Flaubert lido por Baudelaire e Maupassant

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Júnior Vilarino Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Madame Bovary

O romance Madame Bovary, de Gustave Flaubert, quanto à sua influência, extrapola os limites de gêneros, épocas e movimentos literários e chega à contemporaneidade na posição de obra paradigmática tanto da inconversibilidade do real pela literatura quanto da irredutibilidade do literário a realidades pré-existentes. O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar que os escritores Charles Baudelaire e Guy de Maupassant ressaltam, em textos críticos sobre Madame Bovary, o formalismo e a impessoalidade da narrativa como recursos que instauram a imanência da obra e problematizam a pertença do autor à escola realista. O retorno a essas críticas pode lançar luz sobre experimentações estéticas posteriores em que a representação interroga o estatuto do documento e da referencialidade externa.

Transnational Precursors of American Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Renate von Bardeleben
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Honore De Balzac ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Authors

This chapter concentrates on European realist innovators—Björnstjerne Björnson, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant—and their effect on the formative period of American realism. It studies in detail the transatlantic development of new techniques and discusses the ways in which these new methods were reflected in the works of American authors and critics. Inspired by the theories and practice of their precursors, American writers felt liberated to introduce new narrative strategies to represent America’s rising urbanism, the struggles of the social classes, and the increase of social mobility in the industrial age. They also dealt with the emancipated “New Woman” and the changing relationship between the sexes. The guiding principles on which writers on both sides of the Atlantic agreed were truth, sincerity, and frankness.

scholarly journals Fiction as a Medium of Social Communication in 19th Century France

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic ◽  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Comedie Humaine ◽  
19Th Century France ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Fleurs Du Mal

This article will present the extent to which literature could be viewed as means of social communication – i.e. informing and influencing society – in 19thcentury France, by analysing the appearance of three authors at different points:  the beginning, the middle and the end of the century. The first is the case of Balzac at the beginning of the 19th Century who becomes the most successful novelist of the century in France and who, in his prolific expression and rich vocabulary, portrays society from various angles in a huge opus of almost 100 works, 93 of them making his Comédie humaine. The second is the case of Gustave Flaubert whose famous novel Madame Bovary, which depicts a female character in a realist but also in a psychologically conscious manner, around the mid-19th century reaches French courts together with Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire and is exposed as being socially judged for its alleged immorality. The last is the political affair of Dreyfus and its defender Emile Zola, the father of naturalism. This case confirms the establishment of more intense relations between writer and politics and builds a solid way for a more conscious and everyday political engagement in the literary world from the end of the 19th century onwards. These three are the most important cases which illustrate how fiction functioned in relation to society, state and readership in 19th century France.

scholarly journals “Don Luis had never been up in an aeroplane” (Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc before 1905)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Kirill A. Chekalov
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Belle Époque

Some of the works of Maurice Leblanc are considered in the article, who is one of the creators of the French classic detective, written between 1890 and 1905 (before the publication of the first novel about the adventures of "gentleman-cambrioleur" by Arsène Lupin). The influence of Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert is combined with an appeal to Breton legends and erotic motives popular in the “Belle Époque”. The image of a bicycle, a car and the cult of speed associated with them, anticipating the plot dynamics of Lupinian in these works is analysed. On the example of Leblanc's short stories, published in a number of newspapers in the mid-1890s to early 1900s, the gradual maturation of criminal narrative in his work is shown. Among the problems raised in the article – Leblanc's reaction to the ideas of anarchism and the potential influence on the image of Arsène Lupin of the personality of the famous anarchist Marius Jacob as well as the influence of the work of Ernest William Hornung (the creator of the character of A. J. Raffles, the "Amateur Cracksman").

Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire—Their Correspondence

PMLA ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 630-644
Author(s):  
L. Gardner Miller
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Alexandre Dumas ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
French Romanticism

Charles Baudelaire was born April 9, 1821; Gustave Flaubert, December 12 in the same year. Their families belong to a cultivated and wealthy bourgeois class which offers to them all the advantages of such a milieu. They grow up during the time that French Romanticism attains the quintessence of its literary expression; their intelligence is stimulated by their reading of Victor Hugo's dramas, those of Alexandre Dumas, Sr., and of Théophile Gautier's poetry. At school, both are mediocre students who excel each in one scholastic exercise—Flaubert is awarded first prize in history, Baudelaire third prize in Latin poetry. They are too preoccupied with literature, too conscious of the first awakenings of their latent genius. Having no respect for their professors, they spend their time as best suits their fancy. Flaubert writes letters to his cherished friend, Ernest Chevalier: Lundi soir, 15 avril 1839, classe du sire Amyot, théorie des éclipses, lequel a l'esprit bougrement éclipsé.

Flaubert, Gustave (1821–1880)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Law School ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
French Writer

A primary innovator of the modern novel, French writer Gustave Flaubert was one of the most influential literary artists of the nineteenth century. Primarily associated with Realism, Flaubert is best remembered for his magnum opusMadame Bovary (1857). A close friend of many of his contemporaries including Ivan Turgenev, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant, Flaubert was one of the moving forces in the early stages of modern literature. He is widely acknowledged as one of the originators of the modern novel’s form, and his work has influenced such literary figures as Émile Zola, Franz Kafka and Jean-Paul Sartre. Perhaps his legacy is best understood through Marcel Proust, who referred to Flaubert as a ‘génie grammatical’ (grammatical genius). Born in the northern French city of Rouen in 1821, Flaubert was the second of three children. Flaubert’s father was a surgeon in Rouen. After attending secondary school at Collège Royal de Rouen, Flaubert enrolled in law school in Paris in 1842. He would spend almost two years living in Paris before suffering the first epileptic seizure of his life in January 1844. As a result, Flaubert’s career as a writer would begin as he moved to a family property in Croisset, outside Rouen. Here Flaubert would write his masterpieces.

scholarly journals Jacques Rancière e a revolução sensível: uma (outra) leitura política de Madame Bovary

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (49) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Daniela Cunha Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Jacques Rancière

O intuito desse texto é pensar como a análise empreendida por Jacques Rancière em torno do livro Madame Bovary, de Gustave Flaubert, daria a ver um entrelaçamento entre estética e política latente tanto na história de Emma Bovary quanto nas críticas a ela dedicadas. Passando especialmente pelas interpretações de Charles Baudelaire e de Jean-Paul Sartre pretende-se apresentar a ideia de que o modo como ambos pensam os gestos e atitudes da personagem é, antes de tudo, político. Se Sartre aproxima o tema de Emma a uma discussão política pela via da práxis e do imaginário, Rancière apresenta uma leitura do romance que não apenas coloca-o em outra chave de visibilidade como também, a partir desse novo olhar, reinterpreta o próprio campo estético em suas relações com a política. Trata-se de pensar o poder de afetar e transformar vidas que a materialidade do sensível do texto daria a ver; de pensar aquilo que compreende como uma revolução sensível. Desse modo, a aproximação da personagem Emma ao pensamento político da emancipação se dará pela via da partilha do sensível que tanto a personagem quanto os proletários das revoluções francesas do século XIX teriam empreendido ao exceder a ligação entre um modo de aparecer e um modo de ser.

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