Madame Bovary: Introduction by Victor Brombert - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller, Victor BrombertSeries:Everyman's Library ClassicsPublish date:2/23/1993Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679420316ISBN-10:679420312UPC:9780679420316Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:8.24 x 5.30 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCJYH13YJE
Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma's financial ruin remains just as compelling.
In Madame Bovary, his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, Madame Bovary has had an incalculable influence on the literary culture that followed it. This translation, by Francis Steegmuller, is acknowledged by common consensus as the definitive English rendition of Flaubert's text.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679420316ISBN-10:679420312UPC:9780679420316Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:8.24 x 5.30 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCJYH13YJE
Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen and did not leave his birth city until he was nineteen when he went to study law in Paris. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was November, a novella. In September 1849, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. His exploration of themes of spiritual torment was just the beginning of Flaubert's controversial subject choices. His frank and realistic display of the sex, adultery and other goings-on in bourgeois France in Madame Bovary saw him go on trial for immorality, charges he only narrowly escaped. He died in 1880.
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