The letters of Gustave Flaubert (French: la correspondance de Flaubert), the 19th-century French novelist, range in date from 1829, when he was 7 or 8 years old, to a day or two before his death in 1880.[1] They are considered one of the finest bodies of letters in French literature, admired even by many who are critical of Flaubert's novels.[2] His main correspondents include family members, business associates and fellow-writers such as Théophile Gautier, the Goncourt brothers, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, George Sand, Ivan Turgenev and Émile Zola. They provide a valuable glimpse of his methods of work and his literary philosophy, as well as documenting his social life, political opinions, and increasing disgust with bourgeois society.
- ^ Leclerc, Yvan; Girard, Danielle, eds. (2 November 2017). "Présentation des lettres par ordre chronologique". Correspondence: Édition électronique (in French). Centre Flaubert, Université de Rouen. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Barnes 2003.