Gustave Flaubert
1) Salammbo
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French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...
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Félicité is a French maid, who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, Félicité is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives.
In nineteenth-century France, Félicité works as a loyal housemaid to her mistress, Madame Aubain. She tends to her two children and is a constant source of support for the family....
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Par un chaud dimanche d'été, près du bassin du port de l'Arsenal, sur le boulevard Bourdon, à Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idée d'écrire leur nom dans leur chapeau : « Alors ils se considérèrent. ». Tombés sous le charme l'un de l'autre, Bouvard et Pécuchet découvrent que non seulement ils exercent le même...
4) Herodias
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In this gripping novella, French literary master Gustave Flaubert revisits one of the most dramatic events of the Bible and presents his own imaginative spin on the tale. The Herodias of the story's title is a princess who has concocted a devious plan to compel her husband to fall in love with her young daughter from a previous union, Salome. Once Salome has won his heart, Herodias instructs her to request the execution of John the Baptist.
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A servant girl named Felicite. After her one and only love Theodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicite quits the farm where she works and heads to another location, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant. Despite her life being seemingly pointless, she has within her the power to love. She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility.
6) Salammb
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Extrait : "C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar. Les soldats qu'il avait commandés en Sicile se donnaient un grand festin pour célébrer le jour anniversaire de la bataille d'Eryx, et comme le maître était absent et qu'ils se trouvaient nombreux, ils mangeaient et buvaient en pleine liberté. Les capitaines, portant des cothurnes de bronze, s'étaient placés dans le chemin du milieu..."
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8) Salammb
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Salaambo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, whose vivid plot bursts with exoticism, high drama, and bloody violence.
Set in Carthage, during the 3rd-century BC immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt, which took place shortly after the First Punic War. It's a tale of war between, Rome and Carthage. Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of...
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Malheurs, malédictions et légendes sont les ingrédients respectifs de ces trois récits de Flaubert!
Trois contes est la dernière œuvre achevée de Gustave Flaubert. Publiée en 1877, elle réunit trois contes de nature et inspiration totalement différentes. Enfant de la maturité, elle donne un panorama sans égal de l'art de Flaubert, tant du point de vue du style que des sujets abordés.
C'est un vitrail de la cathédrale de Rouen qui...
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«T'aperçois-tu que je deviens moraliste! Est-ce un signe de vieillesse? Mais je tourne certainement à la haute comédie. J'ai quelquefois des prurits atroces d'engueuler les humains et je le ferai à quelque jour, dans dix ans d'ici, dans quelque long roman à cadre large; en attendant, une vieille idée m'est revenue, à savoir celle de mon Dictionnaire des idées reçues.» Lettre de Flaubert à Louise Colet, 17 décembre 1852.
11) Salambo
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Publicado em 1862, «Salambo» evoca a civilização cartaginesa, aquando da revolta dos mercenários que se seguiu à primeira guerra púnica. Mais do que um romance histórico, esta obra surge como uma sucessão de momentos estéticos pintados com grande brilhantismo.