[Pocket Edition] World Classics Library - Madame Bovary (Pocket Edition)

Author: Flaubert
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's breakthrough work and masterpiece. Through Emma Bovary's tragic journey from marriage to decline to death, the novel realistically portrays the provincial customs of 19th-century France. It extinguishes the unrealistic halo of fantasy, revealing the somber truth beneath. There is no hint of dreamlike escapism—what you receive is a more authentic and harsh reality. The rigorous realism strictly submits to reality, neither creating elevation nor beautifying everything into romantic poetry. It transplants the essence of reality onto the page, arranging it in harmony, where the true face of life is laid bare. More rigorous, solid, and poignant than reality itself. It is an artistically perfect and exquisite masterpiece of French literature, a successor to The Red and the Black and The Human Comedy as another great work of 19th-century critical realism. One of the 37 world literary masterpieces recommended by Mao Dun for Chinese readers to read.