Gustave flaubert biography riassunto odisseaua wikipedia

He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality".

In Paris, he was an indifferent student and found the city distasteful. He made a few acquaintances, including Victor Hugo.

Gustave flaubert biography riassunto odisseaua wikipedia: Gustave Flaubert was a French

Toward the end of , he traveled in the Pyrenees and Corsica. From to , Flaubert had a relationship with the poet Louise Colet ; his letters to her survived. He did however make occasional visits to Paris and England, where he apparently had a mistress. With his lifelong friend Maxime Du Camp , he traveled in Brittany in In Beirut he contracted syphilis.

He spent five weeks in Istanbul in Flaubert did not marry or have children. In a letter to Colet, he explained his reasons for not wanting children, saying he would "transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence".