Title:
Madame Bovary : life in a country town
Author:
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
ISBN:
9780192833990
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Madame Bovary. English
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998, c1981.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 362 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
General Note:
First published as a World's classics paperback. 1981.
Abstract:
Madame Bovary is the story of a young country doctor's wife who seeks escape from the boredom of her existence in love affairs and romantic yearnings, and who is doomed to disillusionment. By his evocation of Emma, a figure both absurd and pathetic, and of the petty provincialism that surrounds her, Flaubert established the realistic novel in France; but his concern was with more than mere description. His preoccupation with style and with the aesthetic transformation of a mundane and vulgar reality is what gives the novel its lasting fascination and its place as a landmark in world literature.