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Dec 14, 1991 | ISBN 9780679736363 Buy
Oct 23, 2013 | ISBN 9780804151337 Buy
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Dec 14, 1991 | ISBN 9780679736363
Oct 23, 2013 | ISBN 9780804151337
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.
Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, France, and did not leave his birth city until he was 19 when he went to study law in Paris. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was… More about Gustave Flaubert
"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." — John Updike
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