Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after [...]

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic per[...]

Considered one of the most influential novels ever written, Madame Bovary is a true literary masterpiece. Often described as 'the perfect novel', Madame Bovary is said to have had an influence on modern fiction that is so profound it is difficult to perceive. It relates the tale of a bored and unsat[...]

Der Weg des heiligen Antonius zu völliger Askese und Einsamkeit, seine Versuchung durch Luxus, Sinnlichkeit und Macht - ein Thema, das Flaubert sein Leben lang beschäftigte. Zwischen den ersten Entwürfen, die der 13jährige Flaubert niederschrieb, und der endgültigen Fassung, liegen beinahe vier[...]