La novela m s conocida de Gustave Flaubert y una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal nos acerca a la historia de Emma Rouault.
Una joven de origen campesino y hu rfana de madre que contrae matrimonio con el m dico Charles Bovary. El af n por ser la protagonista de una vida rom ntica presidida por el amor, ambici n que su marido no puede satisfacer, ser la perdici n de la ingenua muchacha, que buscar por todos los medios, con aventuras y con amantes, escapar al tedio, la monoton a y la exasperaci n que se han apoderado de su vida.
La presente edici n, en reciente traducci n de Mauro Armi o, incluye los fragmentos, descubiertos entre los manuscritos de Flaubert, que el autor decidi a ltima hora no incluir en la novela. Completan el volumen un estudio introductorio de Jacques Neefs, de la Johns Hopkins University, y una cronolog a flaubertiana.
Intentaba saber qu se entend a exactamente en la vida por las palabras felicidad, pasi n y ebriedad, que tan hermosas le hab an parecido en los libros.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succ s de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel.
This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts.
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