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.
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/14/1991
Series: Vintage Classics #0000
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780679736363
Language: English
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