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Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary": Notes (York Notes)

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary": Notes (York Notes)

Alastair B. Duncan
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As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions, Madame Bovary remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary a farmer s daughter who, with girlhood dreams fuelled by sensational novels, marries a provincial doctor Flaubert inaugurated a literary mode that would be called Realism. But so exacting were Flaubert s standards of authenticity that his portrayal of the breakdown of Emma s marriage, and the frankness with which he treats her adulterous liaisons, scandalized many of his contemporaries. Yet to others, the mix of painful introspection, emotional blindness, and cynical self-seeking that distinguishes his characters made the novel instantly recognizable as a work of genius. It is a novel fixed upon the idea of romance of the need for Romance in the face of day-to-day banalities. It is a theme that is ironic insofar as the exquisite clarity of Flaubert s prose serves to hauntingly underline the futility of the heroine s ultimate tragedy.
Pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Longman
Release
June 26, 1989
ISBN
058295701X
ISBN 13
9780582957015

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary": Notes (York Notes)

Alastair B. Duncan
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions, Madame Bovary remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary a farmer s daughter who, with girlhood dreams fuelled by sensational novels, marries a provincial doctor Flaubert inaugurated a literary mode that would be called Realism. But so exacting were Flaubert s standards of authenticity that his portrayal of the breakdown of Emma s marriage, and the frankness with which he treats her adulterous liaisons, scandalized many of his contemporaries. Yet to others, the mix of painful introspection, emotional blindness, and cynical self-seeking that distinguishes his characters made the novel instantly recognizable as a work of genius. It is a novel fixed upon the idea of romance of the need for Romance in the face of day-to-day banalities. It is a theme that is ironic insofar as the exquisite clarity of Flaubert s prose serves to hauntingly underline the futility of the heroine s ultimate tragedy.
Pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Longman
Release
June 26, 1989
ISBN
058295701X
ISBN 13
9780582957015

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