EXACTLY THE RIGHT WORD
Writing was not easy for the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Because of his
concern for form and precise detail, he often struggled for days searching for
"exactly the right word". He took five years to write
Madame Bovary, his best-known
work. Flaubert's goal was to write faultless prose. In
Madame Bovary, which tells of
Emma Bovary's revolt against her middle-class environment, Flaubert reveals his
own great contempt for the bourgeoisie. This group, he felt, was opposed to art and
hated everything that it could not put to use. When
Madame Bovary first appeared -
in 1856, as a magazine serial - Flaubert was brought to trial for publishing a morally
offensive work. He was acquitted in 1857, and in the same year, the novel came out
in book form. During his later years, Flaubert spent the winter in Paris, where he
held literary gatherings. Flaubert never married, and died on May 8th, 1880.
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