Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des cables, des corbeilles de linge genaient la circulation ; les matelots ne repondaient a personne ; on se heurtait ; les colis montaient entre les deux tambours, et le tapage s'absorbait dans le bruissement de la vapeur, qui, s'echappant par des plaques de tole, enveloppait tout d'une nuee blanchatre, tandis que la cloche, a l'avant, tintait sans discontinuer. Enfin le navire partit ; et les deux berges, peuplees de magasins, de chantiers et d'usines, filerent comme deux larges rubans que l'on deroule. Un jeune homme de dix-huit ans, a longs cheveux et qui tenait un album sous son bras, restait aupres du gouvernail, immobile. A travers le brouillard, il contemplait des clochers, des edifices dont il ne savait pas les noms ; puis il embrassa, dans un dernier coup d'oeil, l'ile Saint-Louis, la Cite, Notre-Dame ; et bientot, Paris disparaissant, il poussa un grand soupir.
Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des cables, des corbeilles de linge genaient la circulation ; les matelots ne repondaient a personne ; on se heurtait ; les colis montaient entre les deux tambours, et le tapage s'absorbait dans le bruissement de la vapeur, qui, s'echappant par des plaques de tole, enveloppait tout d'une nuee blanchatre, tandis que la cloche, a l'avant, tintait sans discontinuer. Enfin le navire partit ; et les deux berges, peuplees de magasins, de chantiers et d'usines, filerent comme deux larges rubans que l'on deroule. Un jeune homme de dix-huit ans, a longs cheveux et qui tenait un album sous son bras, restait aupres du gouvernail, immobile. A travers le brouillard, il contemplait des clochers, des edifices dont il ne savait pas les noms ; puis il embrassa, dans un dernier coup d'oeil, l'ile Saint-Louis, la Cite, Notre-Dame ; et bientot, Paris disparaissant, il poussa un grand soupir.
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The development of nineteenth-century literary realism was fundamentally shaped by the publication of Madame Bovary in 1857, a novel depicting bourgeois provincial life with dispassionate psychological accuracy. French writer Gustave Flaubert created this masterpiece after years of painstaking drafting, setting a new standard for narrative objectivity and prose composition in modern fiction.
Born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France, Gustave Flaubert grew up in the hospital where his father served as chief surgeon. He began writing plays, historical narratives, and early texts as a child before devoting his adult life entirely to literary craft. His debut novel, Madame Bovary, brought him immediate prominence and an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in 1857. Over the following decades, he published major works such as the historical novel Salammbô and the contemporary Parisian narrative Sentimental Education. Flaubert maintained an extensive correspondence, including thousands of detailed letters, and served as a dedicated mentor to younger writers such as Guy de Maupassant.
Known for extreme stylistic precision, Flaubert spent days polishing individual pages to achieve aesthetic cadences, exact word choice, and structural harmony. His writing combines detailed observation of everyday social experiences with a commitment to authorial objectivity. In works like his posthumously published comic novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, he explored human fallibility, bourgeois pretension, and the limits of intellectual ambition while avoiding overt moralizing or sentimentality.
3 books in catalog
The development of nineteenth-century literary realism was fundamentally shaped by the publication of Madame Bovary in 1857, a novel depicting bourgeois provincial life with dispassionate psychological accuracy. French writer Gustave Flaubert created this masterpiece after years of painstaking drafting, setting a new standard for narrative objectivity and prose composition in modern fiction.
Born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France, Gustave Flaubert grew up in the hospital where his father served as chief surgeon. He began writing plays, historical narratives, and early texts as a child before devoting his adult life entirely to literary craft. His debut novel, Madame Bovary, brought him immediate prominence and an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in 1857. Over the following decades, he published major works such as the historical novel Salammbô and the contemporary Parisian narrative Sentimental Education. Flaubert maintained an extensive correspondence, including thousands of detailed letters, and served as a dedicated mentor to younger writers such as Guy de Maupassant.
Known for extreme stylistic precision, Flaubert spent days polishing individual pages to achieve aesthetic cadences, exact word choice, and structural harmony. His writing combines detailed observation of everyday social experiences with a commitment to authorial objectivity. In works like his posthumously published comic novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, he explored human fallibility, bourgeois pretension, and the limits of intellectual ambition while avoiding overt moralizing or sentimentality.
