Madame Bovary

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Literary, Historical
Cover of the book Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Gustave Flaubert ISBN: 9780804151337
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: October 23, 2013
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9780804151337
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: October 23, 2013
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

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For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

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