Gustave Flaubert: între sensibilitate romantică și imparțialitate realistă

Abstract

The objective art of a novelist is illustrated through his efforts to seem absent in the narrative, when, in fact, his discreet presence is fully materialized in the ideas and conclusions contained in each written line. The Flaubertian style is marked by the tendency towards impersonality and impartiality, these qualities being manifested by the writer’s intellectual effort to transpose himself into his characters. Gustave Flaubert has created at the confluence of two essential ways of thinking and perceiving the world – Romanticism and Realism, managing to develop his own artistic style, consisting of the unmistakable combination between the scientific method of Realism, accompanied by precise documentation and descriptions rigor, on the one hand, and the overflowing imagination, the increased attention paid to characters sentimental feelings, on the other hand. Thus, we attest in Gustave Flaubert’s creation two distinct tendencies: the first, which consists in admiration for Hugo and Chateaubriand’s influence, due to the writer’s adolescence spent in full Romantic era and the second, which is manifested since 1849, when Realistic discipline will restrain, but will not definitively overcome this passionate and enthusiastic personality, because his heart will forever remain full of tenderness and sensitive to any Romantic impulse.