Length: 2 acts.
A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman
But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style.
Hardy's involvement was perhaps mediated via Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife ( 1864 ) , which may be the earliest borrowing from Flaubert's novel in English , though Braddon omits adultery and is given to moralising .
The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment....
After Flaubert's acquittal in February 1857, Madame Bovary was published in book form and became an instant bestseller. The novel is considered Flaubert's master-piece, and one of the most influential literary works in history.
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However, many now claim the novel as an integral part of modern European and American fiction and the forerunner and model of the realistic novel.
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In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.
Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. 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.