by Gustave Flaubert · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634647
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«Madame Bovary» is the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
The work narrates the life of Emma Bovary, a woman married to a rural doctor who tries to escape the emptiness of provincial existence through illicit loves and excessive spending. Her progressive indebtedness and her longing for an idealized life drag her toward a tragic outcome. This edition includes the prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa and the translation by Consuelo Berges, and is considered one of the summits of nineteenth-century literary realism.
It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection (Literatura series, number 5537). It was originally published in 1856. The translation is by Consuelo Berges and the prologue is by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
