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Emma Rouault est la fille d'un riche fermier, mais elle a été élevée dans un couvent. Ennuyée par la monotonie de son existence, elle se réfugie dans les romans à l'eau de rose. Elle rêve alors d'une vie romantique et brillante comme les princesses de ces romans à l'eau de rose. En âge de se marier, elle devient l'épouse de Charles Bovary. Ce dernier a fait des brillantes études de médecine, mais finit comme un simple officier de santé....
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A personalidade literária de Flaubert, dotada de um agudo senso crítico que o distanciou do exaltado gosto romântico da época, levou-o a tornar-se um dos maiores prosadores da França no século XIX. O romance "Madame Bovary", a sua obra-prima, levou cinco anos a escrever e deu origem a um processo judicial no qual o autor apenas conseguiu escapar à prisão graças à habilidade da defesa, que transformou a acusação de imoralidade na proclamação...
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Brought up on a Normandy farm, convent-educated and an avid reader of sentimental novels, Emma Bovary longs for a life of luxury and high romance. She is married to a well-meaning but mediocre country doctor, but she is far from fulfilled. She seeks to escape her boredom through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery.
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
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[1965]
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating....
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