Gustave flaubert (1821-1880) &e best-known for MADAME BOVARY (1857), a story of adultery and unhappy love affair of the provincial wife Emma C Bovary. As a writer Flaubert was a perfectionist, who did not make a distinction between a beautiful or ugly subject: all was in the style --- Emile zola(1840-1902) k" l am little concerned with beauty or perfection Idon't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life R struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation."(from My Hates, 1866)--------Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) best-known for MADAME BOVARY (1857), a story of adultery and unhappy love affair of the provincial wife Emma Bovary. As a writer Flaubert was a perfectionist, who did not make a distinction between a beautiful or ugly subject: all was in the style. -------Emile Zola (1840-1902) "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation." (from My Hates, 1866)