by Gustave Flaubert · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789895523832
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«Um Coração Simples» is the short novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Editora Quasi in paperback, in Portuguese.
It narrates the life of Félicité, a humble and devout servant who gives herself completely to her mistress and to domestic tasks without holding anything back. Through her simple existence, Flaubert portrays rural France of the nineteenth century and composes a tale about goodness, love and loss in small everyday gestures.
Work originally published in 1877 as «Un cœur simple»; this Portuguese edition has 93 pages. The Portuguese translation is by Maria Emanuel Côrte-Real and Julio Machado.
Intended for readers of European classics and short fiction; also appears on school reading lists.
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.
