Life in a Country Town - Couverture rigide

Flaubert, Gustave

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192505645 ISBN 13 : 9780192505644

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1959

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for the masterpiece MADAME BOVARY, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art.

The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word").

The novel was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialized, resulting in a trial that made the story notorious. After the acquittal, it became a bestseller when it was published as a book, and now stands virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of Realism, but as one of the most influential novels of all time.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1959
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192505645
• ISBN 13: 9780192505644
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 442
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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