Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Exuberance is better than taste.
Citations
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857. Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1980.
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Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.