The bicentenary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert last December was a reminder of the ongoing relevance of the French novelist as a writer engaged with deeply religious themes. His sometimes sardonic ...

‘There are in me, literarily speaking, two distinct persons,” Gustave Flaubert wrote to his lover, the poet Louise Colet. One was “infatuated with bombast, lyricism, eagle flights, sonorities of ...

There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...

Gustave Flaubert's writing of Madame Bovary has often been considered the work of a genius who labored intensely and in solitude on the writing and rewriting of his novel, first published in 1856 in ...

French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s account of his trip up the Nile in 1850 can still intrigue today The 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert was not a great traveller. In his letters he often ...

The exclamation "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" is attributed to Gustave Flaubert, creator of the 19th century's original desperate housewife, but this is not Flaubert's Madame Bovary – it's an adaptation ...

I have read English translations of Madame Bovary four times now, and until this one, by Lydia Davis, I always appreciated Gustave Flaubert's novel with a somewhat removed feeling - stamped it as ...

These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the “Couples Therapy”-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above. By Sadie ...