Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
Highlights

English
Language
NA
Edition
384
Pages
9780140449129
ISBN-13
0140449129
ISBN-10Faber And Faber Penguin India
Publisher
198 mm
Height
129 mm
Width
25 mm
Thickness
Paperback
BindingDescription
Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flauberts erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine but Flaubert insisted: Madame Bovary, cest moi. This modern translation by Flauberts biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.