Madame Bovary (Gospozha Bovari)

Gustave Flaubert was a French writer often called the creator of the modern novel. He was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, where his father was chief physician at one of the local hospitals. From 1823 to 1840 Flaubert studied at the Royal College of Rouen, where he did not achieve particular success, but showed an interest in history and a great love of literature. He read not only the fashionable Romantic writers of the time, but also Cervantes and Shakespeare. At school he met the future poet L. Bouilhet (1822–1869), who became his faithful friend for life.

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