Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Illustree

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Illustree

Paperback (26 Dec 2020) | French

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Publisher's Synopsis

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.

Book information

ISBN: 9798586955029
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: French
Number of pages: 422
Weight: 485g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm