The Martyr of Style - Essays & Excerpts on Gustave Flaubert

Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first became famous for his debut novel “Madame Bovary” (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity. Mentor of the celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant. Flaubert was highly influential and is generally considered to be leading exponent of literary realism in France. This volume contains a collection of essays and excerpts on the famous F