Emma Bovary, moglie insoddisfatta di un mite medico di campagna, cerca un senso alla sua monotona esistenza in una serie di sfortunate vicende sentimentali. Un romanzo dallo stile esemplare che costò a Flaubert (1821-80) un processo con l’accusa d’avere offeso la morale pubblica.
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature–Emma Bovary. A bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.
A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence.
The novel is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, as well as a seminal work of realism and one of the most influential novels ever written.
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert. The story focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert’s acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published as a single volume. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. The British critic James Wood writes: \
