[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - Madame Bovary

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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Madame Bovary is Flaubert's breakthrough work and masterpiece. Through Emma's tragic journey from marriage to decline and death, the novel realistically portrays the provincial customs of 19th-century France. It extinguishes the unrealistic halo of dreams, revealing the somber truth beneath. Without any inclination to inspire daydreams, it presents a more authentic and harsh reality. The severe realism strictly obeys reality—it does not create elevation or transform everything into romantic poetry. It transfers the essence of reality onto the page, arranging it in harmony, where the true face of life is laid bare. More rigorous, solid, and moving 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.