Madame Bovary
of Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (Contributor), Paul De Man (Editor), Malcolm Bowie (Introduction), Margaret Mauldon (Translator)
Description
'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist MichĂšle Roberts.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 329 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Publication Date 10/28/04
- First Publication 10/28/57
- Language French
- ISBN 9780192840394
- Edition Oxford World's Classics
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Rouen (France)', "Yonville-l'Abbaye (France)", 'Tostes (France)']
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