Gustav Flaubert

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:French_literature
gptkbp:associated_act gptkb:translator
Literary criticism
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Romanticism
Literary salons
Bohemian lifestyle
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Legion_of_Honour
gptkbp:born December 12, 1821
gptkbp:child gptkb:None
gptkbp:died May 8, 1880
gptkbp:education gptkb:Lycee_Louis-le-Grand
gptkbp:famous_for Realism in literature
gptkbp:famous_quote “ The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“ Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“ The writer is the one who is able to see the world as it is.”
“ I am a man of the world, and I have seen many things.”
“ A book is a mirror that we hold up to our own faces.”
“ The most important thing is to be able to write.”
“ Madame Bovary, c'est moi.”
“ The writer must be like a God.”
“ There is no such thing as a lost cause.”
“ To be a writer is to be a man of the world.”
gptkbp:genre Literary realism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gustav Flaubert
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Gustave_Courbet
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Albert_Camus
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Stendhal
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Honoré_de_Balzac
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkbp:literary_movement gptkb:Realism
Naturalism
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notable_character gptkb:Saint_Anthony
gptkb:Emma_Bovary
gptkb:Frédéric_Moreau
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Madame_Bovary
gptkb:The_Temptation_of_Saint_Anthony
Sentimental Education
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Writer
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Rouen,_France
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Croisset,_France
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Louise_Colet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Alexander_Chekhov
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4