Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave; Hopkins, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192815644 ISBN 13: 9780192815644

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Novel in which a woman defies the standards of conventional French society.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The year 1857 propelled Flaubert into the law courts and into celebrity. It was not exactly the kind of celebrity he had wished for. 'Madame Bovary' had appeared serially in 'La Revue de Paris'. Now the imperial prosecutor was attacking the work for being offensive to religion and morality. Not only the seduction scenes, but the episodes dealing with religion and the description of Emma's death, came under direct censure. More than the subject, the general tone of the novel was denounced as immoral: the pervasive eroticism, the poetry of adultery, the so-called 'realism' of the style. Flaubert, excellently defended by his lawyer, was acquitted. The book was published soon after, benefiting from the advance courtroom publicity.

About the Author:

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is recognized as one of the most important authors of 19th-century literature. When Madame Bovary was published in 1857, France was scandalized by the passionate love story and Flaubert was put on trial for offending public morality. Flaubert was the much-admired friend and influential mentor of such writers as Turgenev and the young Guy de Maupassant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0192815644
• ISBN 13: 9780192815644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400