'A masterpiece' Julian Barnes
Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wall
With a Preface by Michèle Roberts
| ISBN: | 9780140449129 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2003 |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 335 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation Erotic Fiction |