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| Gustav Flaubert - Madame Bovary |
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| The Template of Great Literature |
| Gustav Flaubert - Madame Bovary |
| Begun in 1851, Flaubert’s most famous novel was to influence literary style thereafter. Working often 16 hours a day, he revised repeatedly for over 5 years. His bourgeois heroine, Emma, is beautiful, adulterous and finally a suicide. Her romantic reading leads to a lust for sensation which ends in personal disaster and ruin for her husband and child. Flaubert said, ‘Madame Bovary is myself…drawn from life’. The eroticism of the novel led to prosecution. But it remains the consummate portrait of French provincial life, at a time of huge change. Its lack of a spiritual heart may be its main flaw. Or the whole point? |
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