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Sep 30, 2010 · Having taken to heart the advice of his best friend, the poet Louis Bouilhet (to whom he dedicated “Madame Bovary”), Flaubert settled on a mundane topic to suppress his admitted “tendency to ...
When Madame Bovary is seduced by Rodolphe and lured into an abusive relationship, Flaubert doesn't victim blame her. He acknowledges the fact that it's his fault, he's the one in the wrong, and that she is just being manipulated.
Jun 12, 2015 · For a classic literary character whose motivations are so plain and so primal, Emma Bovary has been a tough nut to crack on screen. Several esteemed directors have given it a shot over the years, including Vicente Minnelli in 1949 and Claude Chabrol in 1991.
In fact, Flaubert had to defend himself in court for charges of immorality regarding the publication of Madame Bovary. Nothing drives book sales like a court of law trying to deem a book too scandalous for people to be trusted to read it.
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Madame Bovary was greeted with no little controversy on its release, the French government going so far as to charge the author with having “offen[ded] public and religious morality and decency.” After a day-long trial, Flaubert was acquitted, the court noting that although “the work referred to court deserves a harsh rebuke, for the task ...
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Dec 25, 1991 · Madame Bovary is not a very good or likable character, and yet like her contemporary, the vain and selfish Scarlett O'Hara, she has become a favorite of millions of readers. The difference between Bovary and O'Hara is in how they react to misfortune, and their different styles say a great deal about the differences between France and America ...
