by Gustave Flaubert · Club Internacional del Libro · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474612547
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«Madame Bovary» is the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Club Internacional del Libro in hardback (351 pages, in Spanish).
Emma Rouault, a young woman of peasant origin, marries the doctor Charles Bovary and soon clashes with the monotony of provincial life. Emma's desire to live a great love pushes her to seek in lovers and luxuries what her husband does not give her. Flaubert offers an ironic look at nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the idealization of romance.
Published in 1983, this edition belongs to the collection Grandes genios de la literatura universal, volume 28.
For readers who want to approach a classic of world literature and one of the great novels of the nineteenth century.
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.
