Frau Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Overview

Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife, has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, and high society. The disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life lead her into extramarital love affairs as well as causing her to accrue an insurmountable amount of debt. The book, loosely based on the life story of a school friend who had become a doctor, was written at the urging of friends, who were trying to cure Flaubert of his Romanticism by assigning him the dreariest subject they could think of, and challenging him to make it interesting.When it was first serialized in La Revue de Paris, the novel was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors. Flaubert's masterpiece is now considered a seminal work of Realism and one of the most influential novels ever written.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911429272
Publisher:	Interactive Media
Publication date:	05/15/2016
Series:	World Classics
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Flaubert wurde am 12.12.1821 in Rouen geboren. Sein Vater war Chirurg. Flaubert wuchs ohne Zuneigung auf, da er ein ungewolltes Kind war. Er galt in der Familie als dumm und zurückgeblieben. Auf Drängen seines Vaters nahm er in Paris das Jurastudium auf, folgte aber gleichzeitig seinen literarischen Neigungen.Wegen des Ausbruchs einer Nervenkrise brach er 1844 seine erfolgloses Studium ab. Es folgten Reisen nach Korsika, Italien, Griechenland, dem Orient und Nordafrika. Seit 1864 lebte er in selbstgewollter Isolation in Croisset, wo er am 8.5.1880 starb.