Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life - Brossura

Flaubert, Gustave

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ISBN 10: 0679736360 ISBN 13: 9780679736363

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1991

Riassunto

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.

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"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679736360
• ISBN 13: 9780679736363
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432