Voting Station

Gustave Flaubert

Please vote to see the next celebrity.

Author

The Resume

    (December 12, 1821-May 8, 1880)
    Wrote 'Madame Bovary (1857),' 'Salammbô (1862),' 'Sentimental Education (1869),' 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874),' 'Three Tales (1877)' and 'Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)'

Why he might be annoying:

    He never had to earn a living.
    As a young man, to impress his fellow debauchees, he would hook up with the oldest, ugliest harlots.
    He suffered from syphilis.
    He was morbidly perfectionist.
    Each of his books demanded years of cautionary research and exhausting work. His some 2,000 published pages conceal about 30,000 pages of drafts.
    At night, he would read very loudly what he had written that day.
    He sided with Pouchet, defender of spontaneous generation, against Pasteur.
    Like Henry James, his attempts at theatrical success failed.
    He bittered with age, and loathed his contemporaries.
    He died of a stroke, leaving his final novel uncompleted.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was kicked out of high school for irreverence.
    He lived in accordance with his 'art for art's sake' ideal.
    His work was not recognized at the time. Romantics regarded him as a realist, realists, as a romantic, and both camps scorned him.
    His later years were dark.
    Most of his friends had died, and money had become a problem - he had sacrificed his small fortune to help a ruined niece.
    His novels were to be a major reference for many avant-garde writers.
    Today, he is considered one of the great masters of French prose.

Credit: Sviatoslav Mixer


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 84 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 43 Votes: 58.14% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 73 Votes: 71.23% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 85 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 61 Votes: 44.26% Annoying