Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Flaubert, Gustave; Bair, Lowell; Bersani, Leo |
| Publisher: | Bantam Classics |
| Date: | 6/1/1982 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modernliterature–Emma Bovary.
“Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement.” – Henry James
Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor,Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams ofecstasy and her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to sufferingcorruption and downfall.A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searinglydepicts the human mind in search of is Madame Bovary?Flaubert’sanswer to this question was superb:”Madame Bovary, c’est moi.”Acclaimed as amasterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranksof the world’s greatest volume, with its fine translation by LowellBair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essaysand critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.
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