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Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife. Her behaviour explores the banality and emptiness of rural life.
Flaubert considered himself a perfectionist, which is mirrored in the immaculate style of his writing. Madame Bovary is still considered one of the greatest literary texts of all time.
DLSmithies: Don Quixote was Flaubert's favourite book, and I've read somewhere that the idea of Madame Bovary is to re-tell the story of Don Quixote in a different context. Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric literature, and immerses himself in it to the extent that he loses his grip on reality. Emma Bovary is bewitched by Romantic literature in the same way. There are lots of parallels between the two novels, and I think putting them side by side can lead to a better understanding of both.… (mais)
Limelite: Essentially the same greedy, social climbing woman who gets herself into money troubles and manipulates men to get out of them -- but with more success. Similar commentary on society, but instead of the bourgeoisie of village France it's the upper crust of NYC of nearly the same time but without the trenchant humor of Flaubert.… (mais)
browner56: The stories of two women, separated by 150 years, who search desperately for something they never find. Flaubert's legendary protaganist is the role model for Vargas Llosa's "bad girl".
soylentgreen23: 'Mrs Craddock' evidently shares a lot in common with Flaubert's masterpiece, especially in terms of its representation of a woman married to a dull man, who wishes to have a renewed taste of passion, despite the likely terrible consequences.
Lapsus_Linguae: Both heroines love novels and wish to lead an adventurous life but instead, they both get married to down-to-earth medical men who, despite a sincere affection, never understand them.
Alguém realmente gosta desse livro? Eu li o livro por ser um clássico e pela curiosidade deste ter levado o seu autor a julgamento por imoralidade, mas realmente ele não me acrescentou muita coisa. É bem escrito, mas as personagens tem a profundidade de uma poça d'água, mesmo a Madame Bovary, a protagonista.
Tudo que Flaubert conseguiu com sua estória previsível foi me fazer pegar bronca da protagonista, não ter pena do seu marido bobo, ficar com raiva do farmacêutico e com impressão que todo mundo na França não passa de um bando de canalha. Missão cumprida, afinal, era essa a sua intenção, mas não me conquistou.
Esse é considerado um dos livros precursores do Naturalismo/Realismo na Europa, porque ninguém escapa no final, marca registrada dos romances naturalistas. Mas entre ele e Eça, sou muito mais um Eça. E se é pra tratar de infidelidade feminina, sou muito mais O Primo Basílio, do que Madame Bovary.
Mas como disse, pelo menos é bem escrito, e só! ( )
Madame Bovary vive insatisfeita com o marido pois anseia por uma vida menos monótona. Trai o marido primeiro com um depois com outro homem (o próprio marido, sem saber, ajudou na traição). Se encheu de dívidas, sem que o marido soubesse, e era chantageada pelo credor que sabia da traição. Morre (doença relacionada com depressão ?) e deixa triste seu marido que acaba descobrindo depois e perdoando o último amante da madame Bovary.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Marie-Antoine-Jules Sénard Member of the Paris Bar Ex-President of the National Assemly Former Minister of the Interior
To Louis Bouilhet
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in, followed by a new boy not wearing a school uniform, and by a janitor carrying a large desk.
We were at prep, when the Head came in, followed by a new boy not in uniform and a school-servant carrying a big desk.
We were at prep when the Headmaster came in, followed by a 'new boy' not wearing school uniform, and by a school servant carrying a large desk.
We were in class when the head master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
We were in the prep.-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy if "mufti" and a beadle carrying a big desk.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
What would they be doing now? ... the sort of life that opens the heart and the senses like flowers in bloom. Whereas for her, life was cold as an attic facing north, and the silent spider boredom wove its web in all the shadowed corners of her heart.
Surprised by the strange sweetness of it, they never though to describe or to explain what they felt. Coming delights, like tropical beaches, send out their native enchantment over the vast spaces that precede them – a perfumed breeze that lulls and drugs you out of all anxiety as to what may yet await you below the horizon.
'Have you got your pistols?' 'What for?' 'Why, to defend yourself,' Emma replied. 'From your husband? Ha! Poor little man!'
Gone were those tender words that had moved her to tears, those tempestuous embraces that had sent her frantic. The grand passion into which she had plunged seemed to be dwindling around her like a river sinking into its bed; she saw the slime at the bottom.
She repented her past virtue as though it were a crime; what still remained of it collapsed beneath the savage onslaught of her pride.
Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife. Her behaviour explores the banality and emptiness of rural life.
Flaubert considered himself a perfectionist, which is mirrored in the immaculate style of his writing. Madame Bovary is still considered one of the greatest literary texts of all time.
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