Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was the writer of the novel Madame Bovary, a controversial bestseller at the time, whose topical matter of a woman’s progressively casual infidelity almost got the book banned. A writer of few works during his lifetime, Flaubert was meticulous craftsman, often agonizing for hours over a single word or phrase. Flaubert was also an exact writer, traveling to towns and countries where a novel was going to take place, in order to get a personal feel for the region.
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