In the same year Flaubert’s unfinished Bouvard et Pécuchet was published which was the last publication of this exceptional author. Gustave Flaubert died on and is buried at the Rouen Cemetery in Normandy, France. His ultimate aim was stylistic perfection for which he repeatedly revised his work. Gustave worked very hard on his writing and refused to use synonyms, instead he believed in the principle of finding le mot juste (the right word) always. And he was still never satisfied with what he wrote. He would spend days and sometimes even weeks to compose a single page. The reason being is his painstaking perfectionism. He wrote a collection of short fiction stories, Trois contes (Three tales) in 1877.Ī perfectionist by nature, Flaubert’s publishing frequency was much less than that of his peers. Flaubert’s career progressed with another novel Salammbô (1862) and a political drama Le candidat(TheĬandidate) in 1874. A diagnosis of epilepsy forced him to abandon his legal education, which conveniently gave him the. However, Flaubert’s defense won the case and the novel came to be the most influential French novel of the nineteenth century. French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) studied law, but he was born to be a novelist.
Despite the book doing tremendously well in terms of sales and critique, Flaubert was pressed with charges of obscenity and hurting public and religious morality in the novel. The novel was published in six installments by Du Camp’s literary journal Revue de Paris. He spent the next five years writing his greatest masterpiece, Madame Bovary. He spent most of his time at home due to ongoing treatment of epilepsy but travelled once again with a friend to Egypt and Far East in 1851. Flaubert returned to Rouen after the death of his father and lived there for the rest of his life.
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