Portrait of the Artist. Early Prose by Gustave Flaubert

The book is the first monographic study of the early works of Gustav Flaubert (1831-1849) in domestic literary criticism. During the life of the writer, these works were not published, for many years the ideas about them remained incomplete, and their significance and place in the artistic world of the writer - vague. A consistent analysis of historical, psychological, philosophical novels, autobiographical stories, mysteries and philosophical drama “Temptation of St. Anthony” in the context of Western European literary and philosophical traditions allows you to see an important document in the emergence of the creative personality of the writer and a significant fact of the history of world literature.
For literary critics, as well as all those interested in French literature and culture