Nous étions à l'étude, quand le proviseur entra, suivi d'un nouveau habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.
An edition of Madame Bovary
(1856)
Madame Bovary
Life in a Country Town
by Gustave Flaubert
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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, 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, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, family life, Trials, litigation, Literary, Young men, Unrequited love, Romance literature, Trials (Obscenity), Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Wives, Médecins, Romans, nouvelles, Conjoints, Suicidés, Couples mariés, Vie intellectuelle, Mœurs et coutumes, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), fiction, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Triangle (Relations humaines), Roman français, Chang pian xiao shuo, General, Commerce, Qing Dynasty (China, Illustraties, Frans, FICTION / General, Married women--france--fiction, Pq2246.m2 e5 2003, 843.8, French Novelists, Correspondence, Charles Bovary (Fictitious character), Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, general, Emma Bovary (Fictitious character), Manners and customsPeople
Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis, Monsieur Lheureux, Monsieur Homais, JustinPlaces
Paris (France), Fa guo, France, Normandy, Normandy (France)Showing 19 featured editions. View all 1552 editions?
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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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