Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert, Michele Roberts, Manolo Blahnik, Geoffrey Wall
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
30 Jan 2003 UK
University of Canterbury
CINE214, ENGL305, EURA204, EURA304
9780140449129
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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'.
"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. His biography of Flaubert has been translated into four languages. Michele Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels.
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ISBN-13: 9780140449129
Published: 30 Jan 2003
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384
Dewey: 843.8

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