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Flaubert
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Flau·bert  (fl-bâr), Gustave 1821-1880.
French writer considered a forerunner of naturalism and known for his precise literary style. His works include the novel Madame Bovary (1857) and the short story "A Simple Heart" (1877).
Flau·bertian (-shn, -t-n) adj.
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Noun1.FlaubertFlaubert - French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880)
Gustave Flaubert


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While Bellow himself does not regard Augie March as a fully realized work of art, he does see it as the novel in which he succeeded in extricating himself from the taut formalism, the Flaubertian pursuit of exactitude, that characterized his first two books and a breakthrough to a more elastic fictional mode, one capable of registering and exploring a wider range of experience.
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The gap between the two gives rise to the familiar Flaubertian irony" (VanderWolk 276-77).
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