Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880), French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists, known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for le mot juste ("the precise word"). He was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in the Haute-Normandie Region of France.

Bibliography

Major Works

• Madame Bovary (1857)
• Salammbô (1862)
• L'Education sentimentale (1869) (tr. Sentimental Education)
• La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874) (tr. The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
• Trois contes (1877) (tr. Three Tales)
• Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881, posthumously published)
• Dictionnaire des idées reçues (1911, posthumously published, tr. Dictionary of Received Ideas)

Correspondence (in English)

• Selections:
• Selected Letters (ed. Francis Steegmuller, 1953, 2001)
• Selected Letters (ed. Geoffrey Wall, 1997)
• Flaubert in Egypt (1972)
• Flaubert and Turgenev, a Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence (ed. Barbara Beaumont, 1985)
• Correspondence with George Sand:
• The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters, translated by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie (A.L. McKensie), introduced by Stuart Sherman (1921), available at the Gutenberg website as E-text N° 5115
• Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence (1993)

Biographical and other related publications

• Various authors, The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert, available at the Gutenberg website as E-text N° 10666.
• Hennequin, Émile, Quelques écrivains français Flaubert, Zola, Hugo, Goncourt, Huysmans, etc., available at the Gutenberg website as E-text N° 12289
• Barnes, Julian, Flaubert's Parrot, ISBN 0330289764