The Effulgence Within: Madame Bovary: The Irrepressible Obsession of Passionate Adulterous Romance

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Friday, June 7, 2024

Madame Bovary: The Irrepressible Obsession of Passionate Adulterous Romance

A while back, I finished reading Gustave Flaubert’s famous controversial novel, Madame Bovary. It struck me as an ingenuous work of art with a seminal depiction of the reality of the mid-nineteenth century French cultural mores and ethics, published in 1857, after the novel was acquitted by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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