To quote the inimitable Baz Pierce “this is a story about a woman who gets married then finds out that being married is really shit and has lots of affairs and she fucking lives her life” – in a nutshell, that is indeed Madame Bovary. She relished all the wretched ironies of triumphant adultery.” She repented her past virtue as though it had been a crime, and what remained of it crumbled under the furious blows of her pride. “Everything about him irritated her now – his face, his clothes, what he was not saying, his entire person, his very existence. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine but Flaubert insisted: ‘Madame Bovary, c’est moi’.” ( Synopsis from the publisher) Flaubert’s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.
An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. “Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. Publisher/Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
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