O seeking Flaubert, you have foreseen us (The Russian translations of Salambbô as an indicator of the change of cultural epochs)

Gustave Flaubert is one of those writers who had a significant impact on the formation and development Russian literary process; being brightest representative French literature era realism, played role in Russia’s transitional epoch. Working novel Salambbô (1862), foresaw its ill fortunes modern France epoch as whole. Since 1890s, many representatives modernism saw teacher predecessor writer translated his works (I.Bunin, D.Merezhkovsky, K.Balmont, M.Gorky, N.Minsky, Al. Chebotarevskaya, M.Voloshin, A.Blok, Vyach. Ivanov, B.Zaitsev, M.Kuzmin). A line from Balmont’s poem The World Communion (1905) — O seeking Flaubert, you have foreseen us can serve an illustration Flaubert’s fate. In general, interest explained by acute exotic epochs countries, desire to distance oneself vulgar, bourgeois modernity, heroine whose image built intersection mystical erotic elements woman’s life, а striving for perfection mastery word. Many late 19th early 20th centuries passed through school with wonderful experience recreating atmosphere Carthage Middle East, relying both historical sources, well field language style, Holy Scripture.