Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions.
Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions.
Empieza este libro hoy por 0 €
Disfruta de acceso completo a todos los libros de la app durante el periodo de prueba
Gustave Flaubert está considerado como el introductor del realismo francés del siglo XIX. Su obsesión por el estilo, por la búsqueda del mot juste (la palabra justa), hizo que sus obras, consideradas como escandalosas por la sociedad de su tiempo, lograran un reconocimiento unánime por parte de la crítica y de sus compañeros de letras. Tímido hasta lo patológico y en ocasiones arrogante, Flaubert no se granjeó demasiadas amistades a lo largo de su vida. Su carácter, que podríamos calificar de inestable, le llevó a padecer crisis nerviosas que derivaron en una salud frágil. Flaubert, prematuramente anciano, murió de una apoplejía a los 58 años. Contemporáneo del otro gran genio de la literatura francesa, Charles Baudelaire, Flaubert nos lega una obra deslumbrante que arranca con Madame Bovary (1857), sigue con Salambó (1862), La educación sentimental (1869), La tentación de San Antonio (1874), Tres cuentos (1877) y se cierra, póstumamente, con Bouvard y Pécuchet (1881).
