文学作品的风格往往是由作者的人格所决定的。因此,了解作家的生平有助于我们深入地理解作家和他的作品。这一点对于我们理解福楼拜来说尤为重要。福楼拜是一个举世罕见、不同凡响的人,在众多著名的作家中,象他那样孜孜不倦、把毕生精力全部奉献给文学艺术的,可谓绝无仅有。与大多数作家不同,文学对于他来说不仅是唯一重要的活动,而且简直就是他的一切,是他养精蓄锐、自身不断充实和成熟的全部活动内容。在他看来,人生的目的就是坚持不懈地写作,实际上,正是这种对艺术创作的热忱和雄心,促成了他摈弃世俗生活、牺牲个人幸福的坚定信念。他是个浪漫主义者,同时也是个现实主义者。但是,正如巴尔扎克所说的,所谓浪漫主义,是在憎恶现实和逃避现 The style of literary works is often determined by the author’s personality. Therefore, knowing the writer’s life helps us to understand the writer and his works in depth. This is especially important for us to understand Flaubert. Flaubert is a rare and extraordinary person in the world. Among many famous writers, it is unique in that he tirelessly devotes all his life to literature and art as he did. Unlike most writers, literature is not only the only important activity for him, but it is all for him. It is all his activity of keeping one’s energy, continuously enriching and maturing. In his view, the purpose of life is to persevere in writing. In fact, it is this enthusiasm and ambition for artistic creation that has contributed to his firm conviction that he should abandon secular life and sacrifice personal happiness. He is a romantic and a realist. However, as Balzac puts it, so-called romanticism is based on abhorrence of reality and escapism