Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

RM 3.99

ISBN:

9781455425426

Categories:

Classics

File Size

0.88 MB

Format

epub

Language

0

Release Year

2018
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Synopsis

According to Wikipedia: Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flauberts first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctors wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novels true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste (the right word). The novel was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made the story notorious. After the acquittal on 7 February 1857, it became a bestseller when it was published as a book in April 1857, and now stands virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of Realism, but as one of the most influential novels ever written.