Madame Bovary |
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Author:
| Flaubert, Gustave |
Translator:
| Marx-Aveling, Eleanor |
Series title: | Standard Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-5151-4224-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.55 |
Book Description:
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The publication of Gustave Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY in mid-nineteenth century France marked a new era in literary history. So sensational was public reaction that the author was brought to trial for obscenity. Flaubert, however, was acquitted. The novel became an immediate bestseller-one that soon gathered the praise of the notable masters of his day. Madame Bovary is a little woman, half vulgar and half hysterical, incapable of a fine passion; but her trivial desires, her futile...
More DescriptionThe publication of Gustave Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY in mid-nineteenth century France marked a new era in literary history. So sensational was public reaction that the author was brought to trial for obscenity. Flaubert, however, was acquitted. The novel became an immediate bestseller-one that soon gathered the praise of the notable masters of his day. Madame Bovary is a little woman, half vulgar and half hysterical, incapable of a fine passion; but her trivial desires, her futile aspirations after second-rate pleasures and second-hand ideals, give to Flaubert all that he wants: the opportunity to create beauty out of reality. What is common in the imagination of Madame Bovary becomes exquisite in Flaubert's rendering of it, and by that counterpoise of a commonness in the subject he is saved from any vague ascents of rhetoric in his rendering of it. - from FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES, by Arthur Symons