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'Emma found in adultery nothing but the platitudes of marriage.'
Observations like this provoked a scandalized reception for Flaubert's first published novel, and he was put on trial for offending public morality. Madame Bovary is the story of a young country doctor's wife who seeks escape from the boredom of her existence in love affairs and romantic yearnings, and who is doomed to disillusionment.
By his brilliant evocation of Emma, a figure both absurd and pathetic, and of the petty provincialism that surrounds her, Flaubert established the realistic novel in France; but his concern was with more than mere description. His preoccupation with style and with the aesthetic transformation of a mundane and vulgar reality is what gives the novel its lasting fascination and its place as a landmark in world literature.
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literary fiction, French literature, Fiction, Manners and customs in fiction, Adultery, Middle class, Physicians' spouses, Suicide victims, Married women, Social life and customs, French fiction, Technique, Suicide, Husband and wife, History, Physicians, Intellectual life, Classic Literature, Spouses, Country life, Women, Manners and customs, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Trials, litigation, Literary, Young men, Unrequited love, Romance literature, Trials (Obscenity), Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Wives, Médecins, Romans, nouvelles, Conjoints, Suicidés, Married people, Couples mariés, Vie intellectuelle, Mœurs et coutumes, Man-woman relationships, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Relations entre hommes et femmes, Triangle (Relations humaines), Roman français, Chang pian xiao shuo, Bovary, charles (fictitious character), fiction, Bovary, emma (fictitious character), fiction, Emma Bovary (Fictitious character), General, Commerce, Qing Dynasty (China), Charles Bovary (Fictitious character), Illustraties, Frans, FICTION / General, Bovary, emma (fictitious character), Bovary, emma (fictitious character)--fiction, Married women--france--fiction, Pq2246.m2 e5 2003, 843.8, French Novelists, CorrespondencePeople
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包法利夫人: Madame Bovary
2018-02-05, Ren min wen xue chu ban she
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways
2010, Viking, Penguin Classics
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Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town
1981, Oxford University Press
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Oeuvres complètes illustrées de Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
1921, Librairie de France
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Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et au déshonneur. (Résumé par Nadine)
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