The author of "Madame Bovary" is Flaubert.
Flaubert (1821-1880), a French writer, was born in Rouen, northwest France, into a family that had been practicing medicine for generations. His father is the director and chief of surgery of the Rouen Municipal Hospital. His childhood was spent in his father's hospital. Therefore, his subsequent literary creations clearly bear the traces of a doctor's careful observation and analysis.
In 1841, he studied at the Paris Law School. He dropped out of school at the age of 22 because he was suspected of suffering from epilepsy. Since then, he has been living in Rouen, focusing on his creation, and has never been married. "Madame Bovary" took Flaubert nearly five years to complete in 1857. This novel, poetry and literary work created a new era in literary history and became his masterpiece.
Creative Characteristics
First of all, the story characters created by Flaubert are always the product of the story and the plot. There are no fixed characters labeled with facial makeup in his works, nor There is no story or environment tailor-made for the characters, but more based on the original ecology of life to explore the characters' true inner world.
Secondly, Flaubert rarely directly describes the facial features of characters. He pays more attention to the exploration and portrayal of the psychological reality of characters. This is completely consistent with the artistic proposition of the "New Novel" genre, one of the modern schools. consistent.
Thirdly, Flaubert, who suffered from brain diseases when he was young, began to touch upon the subconscious realm that few people touched upon in the past. His speculation and depiction of dreams, his reference to mythological archetypes, and his pursuit of the disordered flow of consciousness inspired the tendency of later modernist literature to focus on the flow of consciousness and the exploration of the subconscious.