Gustave Flaubert

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:French_literature
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Realism
Naturalism
gptkbp:awards Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
gptkbp:birth_year 1821
gptkbp:born December 12, 1821
gptkbp:burial_place gptkb:Cimetière_de_Rouen
gptkbp:child gptkb:None
gptkbp:death_year 1880
gptkbp:died May 8, 1880
gptkbp:education gptkb:Lycee_Louis-le-Grand
gptkbp:famous_for Psychological depth in characters
Critique of bourgeois society
His style and use of language
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.”
“ A book is a mirror that we hold up to our own faces.”
“ There is no such thing as a lost cause.”
“ The writer must be universal, and yet must refuse to be the universal man.”
gptkbp:genre Literary realism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gustave Flaubert
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:Gustave_Courbet
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Albert_Camus
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
Modern literature
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Romanticism
gptkbp:known_for Complex characters
Innovative narrative techniques
Detailed descriptions
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkbp:literary_movement gptkb:Realism
gptkb:Modernism
Naturalism
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notable_for Free indirect discourse
Psychological depth
Detailed descriptions
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Bouvard_and_Pécuchet
gptkb:Madame_Bovary
gptkb:The_Temptation_of_Saint_Anthony
Sentimental Education
gptkbp:notable_works gptkb:The_Sentimental_Education
gptkb:Three_Tales
Sentimental Education
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:short_stories
gptkb:Novelist
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Rouen,_France
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Croisset,_France
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:art
gptkb:literature
gptkb:French_literature
gptkb:philosophy
Literary criticism
Literary theory
19th century literature
Cultural criticism
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Louise_Colet
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas
gptkb:A_Simple_Heart
gptkb:The_Bouvard_and_Pécuchet
gptkb:The_Correspondence_of_Flaubert
gptkb:The_Legend_of_Saint_Julian_the_Hospitaller
gptkb:The_Letters_of_Gustave_Flaubert
gptkb:The_Temptation_of_Saint_Anthony
gptkb:Three_Tales
The Education of the Heart
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gptkb:Legion_of_Super-Heroes
gptkb:André_Breton
gptkb:John_Irving
gptkb:Brittany
gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
gptkb:Victor_Hugo
gptkb:Académie_française
gptkb:Alexander_Pushkin
gptkb:Belgium
gptkb:French_Revolution
gptkb:Julian_Barnes
gptkb:Lille,_France
gptkb:Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
gptkb:Leopoldo_Lugones
gptkb:Paul_Valéry
gptkb:Évreux
gptkb:Jorge_Luis_Borges
gptkb:Normandy
gptkb:Saint-Malo
gptkb:Grand_Cross_of_the_Legion_of_Honour
gptkb:Henri_Cartier-Bresson
gptkb:Émile_Zola
gptkb:André_Gide
gptkb:Calais
gptkb:Limousin
gptkb:Rennes
gptkb:French_Academy
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence
gptkb:Carlos_Ruiz_Zafón
gptkb:French_Academy_Prize
gptkb:Tyler_Baudelaire
gptkb:Légion_d'honneur
gptkb:Les_Misérables
gptkb:Alessandro_Manzoni
gptkb:July_Monarchy
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4