Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave; Hopkins, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192833995 ISBN 13: 9780192833990

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman

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 was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192833995
• ISBN 13: 9780192833990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390