Born on this day – Gustave Flaubert:

Gustave Flaubert

Writer

December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880

Credits:

November (1842); Madame Bovary (1856); Salammbo (1862); A Sentimental Education (1869); The Candidate (1874); The Temptation of Saint Antony (1874); Bouvard and Pacuchet (1881); Three Tales (1872); Golden Tales from Flaubert (1977); Early Writings (1991); Best Known Works of Gustave Flaubert (2004); A Simple Soul (1877); Bibliomania (1954); A Simple Heart (1995); Herodias (1877).

Movies and television:

A Simple Heart (1977 / 2008); Alta comedia (1974); Bouvard et Pécuchet (1971 / 1990); Bovary (2021); Byli jednou dva písari (1972); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Camera Three (1961); Comment est-il possible... (2010); Der Kandidat (1965); Die nackte Bovary (1969); Éducation sentimentale (1962); Emma Bovary (2021); Flaubertine (1973); Frederik Moro (1973); Grande Teatro Tupi (1963); Hérodiade (1985); Herodias (1910); I riassuntini (2018); Le miroir à trois faces: Hérodiade (1967); Le temps de l'amour (2009); L'éducation sentimentale (1973); Madame Bovary (1934 / 1937 / 1947 / 1949 / 1953 / 1964 / 1968 / 1974 / 1975 / 1978 / 1991 / 2000 / 2014); Maya (1993); Nesmrtelní (2010); Ocho estrellas en busca del amor (1964); Paixão e Virtude (2014); Pani Bovary to ja (2017); Par coeur (1998); Salambo (1911); Salammbô (1925); Salammbo: Battle for Carthage (2003); Salammbô: Fureur! Passion! Éléphants! (2023); Save and Protect (1989); Schauplätze der Weltliteratur (1978); Sentimental Education (1970 / 1998); Television Theater (1959); The Conversion of St. Anthony (1911); The Loves of Salammbo (1960); The Reasons of the Heart (2011); Toutes les nuits (2001); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Unholy Love (1932).

Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

- Gustave Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

It's a delicious thing to write.

To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

- Gustave Flaubert.