Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In 1857, Gustave Flaubert published Madame Bovary, the novel of a woman disappointed by provincial life who sinks into adultery. The book broke with everything before it. This is where realism begins: a movement that wants to describe life as it is, without making it beautiful.
Flaubert was put on trial for immorality. The case turned the novel into a scandal, then into a classic. Through Emma Bovary, he asks what fiction does to our lives. The book shows how dreams fed by reading can destroy the real.
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- 2Flaubert and the discipline of the right word
- 3Emma: dream against reality
- 4Free indirect speech and the trial
- 5Bovarysm: a modern illness
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary5 terms explained in a tap.
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