Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader 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 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'.

Commentaire

"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Coralie Bickford-Smith, Gustave Flaubert, Michele Roberts, Geoffrey Wall
• Collaboration: Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrations), Geoffrey Wall (Traduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9780141394671
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139467-1
• Pages: 384
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 35 mm
• Thèmes: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; Penguin Classics Deluxe; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Penguin Clothbound Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Penguin Clothbound Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary