MADAME BOVARY

I invite you to read this book. It is available at UCA´s library.
It is one of the best love stories... but I wonder what love is...

The author of this amazing book was accused of being inmoral and controversial when he published it in 1857 in France. However, the novel Madame Bovary is considered as the second best lingüistic piece ever. It is also considered one of the first novels that initiated the modern narrative.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

French novelist of the realist school, best-known for MADAME BOVARY (1857), a story of adultery and unhappy love affair of the provincial wife Emma Bovary. As a writer Flaubert was a perfectionist, who did not make a distinction between a beautiful or ugly subject: all was in the style. The idea, he argued, only exists by virtue of its form - its elements included the perfect word, cunningly contrived and verified rhythms, and a genuine architectural structure.


Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen into a family of doctors. His father, Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, a chief surgeon at the Rouen municipal hospital, made money investing in land. Flaubert's mother, Anne-Justine-Caroline (née Fleuriot), was the daughter of a physician; she became the most important person in the author's life. Anne-Justine-Caroline died in 1872.

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