5/26/2023 0 Comments Madame bovary author![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the reading, his friends told him to throw the manuscript in the fire and forget about the novel, suggesting instead that he focus on day-to-day life rather than fantastic subjects. He read it aloud to his friends Louis Bouilhet and Maxime Du Camp over the course of four days, not allowing them to interrupt or give any opinions until he had finished. ![]() In September 1849, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. His reason for not having children is revealed in a letter dated 11 December 1852, in which he stated that he was opposed to childbirth, saying he would ‘transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.’ Although he had a long-term mistress, he never married or had a family. He contracted syphilis on this journey and was also subject to severe epileptic fits. ![]() Flaubert lived most of his life in Normandy, though he travelled often to Paris and in 1851 visited Egypt, the Near East and the Mediterranean. His father was the chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital and hoped that Gustave would also be a doctor but the son’s passion was for literature: from a very early age he knew that he wanted to write. Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821 in Rouen. ‘The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.’ Flaubert ![]()
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