Gustave Flaubert

12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880

Novelist

Having made a strenuous effort to understand the symbols he could make nothing of, [Gustave Flaubert] wept giant tears…. For a long time he could not understand the elementary connection that made of two letters one-syllable, of several syllables a word.

 

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Caroline Commanville (Flaubert’s Niece)

Books:

• Memoirs of a Madman (1838)
• Madame Bovary (1857)
• Salammbô (1862)
• Sentimental Education (1869)
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
• Three Tales (1877)
• Le Château des cœurs (1880)
• Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881)
• Dictionary of Received Ideas (1911)