Madame Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert

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Wordsworth Classics

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277

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flabert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial manners. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate tho his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth century successors the formal experimensts that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction.

Flaubert's protagonist has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations.

Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, hic portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast od characters make Madame Bovary one o the major landmakes of modern fiction.
(Arka Kapak)