In the hall of world literature organized book exhibition "Gustave Flaubert - French writer, a realist of the XIX century", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the prose writer.

Gustave Flaubert was a French realist writer. One of the leading authors of his time, often called the creator of the modern novel. He was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, in the family of a doctor. From 1823 to 1840 he studied at the Royal College of Rouen, showed an interest in history and a great love of literature.

The author's literary debut was the 1849 drama The Temptation of St. Anthony. It was a work that raised the themes of the possibility of knowledge and truth. In 1856 he published his most famous novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris. In mid-1850 Flaubert mixes with many famous writers, including Charles Baudelaire, brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, Ivan Turgenev. Flaubert was close friends with the playwright Louis Bouyer and the family of Guy de Maupassant. The experience of traveling to the East, in particular to Tunisia, is reflected in his 1862 novel Salambo, whose main plot takes place in Carthage several centuries BC. The author labored over it for five years. Between 1864 and 1869, Flaubert wrote another major and largely autobiographical novel, The Education of the Senses. In 1872, Flaubert began a long work on a satirical novel about human nature and vanity, Bouvard and Pecuchet. He edited it until his death in 1880. The work was published a year later. At the same time as this novel, Flaubert composed novels: "Herodias," "A Simple Heart," and "The Legend of Saint Julian the Merciful" (1877).

His works "Madame Bovary" and "A Simple Soul" were used in famous films. And music was written for the opera based on the novel "Madame Bovary", "Salammbo" and the story "Herodias". In France in Rouen on the Seine River there is the highest lifting bridge in the world - the Gustave Flaubert Bridge, its opening in 2008.

From the collection of the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan are his works "Salammbo", "Simple Soul", "Education of Senses" in French and Russian; "Madame Bovary" in French, German, English, Russian and Kazakh languages. As well as his famous works: "The Legend of St. Julian the Graceful," "The Candidate," "Herodias," "Letters," "Bouvard and Pecuchet" in Kazakh and Russian.

We invite everyone to visit the book exhibition!