Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert
Publication Date: 29/06/2020

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In Flaubert's debut novel, Emma, a beautiful young farm girl, marries the older, established Dr. Charles Bovary in an attempt to escape her rural life. Though at first she is hopeful and excited to begin her life with Dr. Bovary, married life in a small town doesn't offer Emma the romance and contentment she had been waiting for. She quickly becomes bored and lonely, finding comfort only in her romance novels. After a night of luxury and elegance sparks a desire for more, she begins a series of affairs and extravagant purchases to satisfy her growing appetite--until the walls begin to close in, lovers leave and debtors emerge. Though the story was originally considered so controversial that an obscenity trial was brought against it, Flaubert's humanizing portrait of passion and desire has compelled readers since 1856.


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ISBN:
9781774530139
9781774530139
Category:
Classic fiction
Publication Date:
29-06-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a distinguished surgeon and a doctor's daughter. After three unhappy years of studying law in Paris, an epileptic attack ushered him into a life of writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly escaping conviction.

Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert's genius was not publicly recognized until Three Tales (1877). His reputation among his fellow writers, however, was more constant and those who admired him included Turgenev, George Sand, Victor Hugo and Zola. Flaubert's obsession with his art is legendary: he would work for days on a single page, obsessively attuning sentences, seeking always le mot juste in a quest for both beauty and precise observation.

His style moved Edmund Wilson to say,'Flaubert, by a single phrase - a notation of some commonplace object - can convey all the poignance of human desire, the pathos of human defeat; his description of some homely scene will close with a dying fall that reminds one of great verse or music.' Flaubert died suddenly in May 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard and Pécuchet, unfinished.

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