Geoffrey Wall Livres

Le célèbre roman de Gustave Flaubert pour des étudiants FLE. Pour les étudiants de niveau avancé, la possibilité de lire un des monuments de la littérature française...Fille d'un riche fermier, Emma Rouault épouse Charles Bovary, officier de santé et veuf récent d'une femme tyrannique.Elevée dans un couvent, Emma aspire à vivre dans le monde de rêve dont parlent les romans à l'eau de rose qu'elle y a lu. Un la persuade qu'un tel monde existe, mais le décalage qu'elle découvre avec sa propre vie déclenche chez elle une maladie nerveuse.

'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?' 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. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.' This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.