Vargas Llosa claims to have been influenced by the work of Flaubert and his invisible "objective narrator" who refuses to preach or provide commentary on the action and therefore contributes to the illusion that the story is true.
Flaubert was a friend of Maupassant's uncle, and Maupassant considered Flaubert to be his literary mentor.
Sartre wrote a biography of Flaubert, entitled "L'Idiot de la Famille".
Capote claimed: "If I had any model at all it was Flaubert."
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Flaubert began to write in his early teens, including what he called a "literary journal" called Art and Progress. At the age of 15, he met a woman 10 years older, Elisa Schlesinger, the great love of his life, with whom he had a long semi-platonic romance. He published his first short story in 1837 while still in high school. He studied law without enthusiasm, developed epilepsy, and dropped out of law school to devote his life to writing. In 1846, after the death of his father and his beloved more...
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12/12/1821 Rouen, Normandy, France, Western Europe,
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I enojoyed every page. I could picture every sapace, every feeling. I understood Emma, and heated her, so much!!! ugggg...it was just great! The escence of this book comes to my mind every day!