Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)

Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)
by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)
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Author: Gustave Flaubert
Editor: Margaret Cohen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-14
ISBN: 0393979172
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Book Review: Exceptional realist novel
Summary: 5 Stars

What could anyone ask for when reading a work for a class in Realism than a novel that not only inspires one to keep reading, but also contains a transcript of a trial the author goes through on a charge he was lewd and lacivious in the writing of the story?

Flaubert keeps the reader entertained with his descriptive rendering of a woman who cannot accept her life with her boring husband and takes lovers to keep her passionate flame lit. The sad part of the tale is the husband never knows and loves her unconditionally, and even at the end find reasons to hold her in the highest esteem and diefy her name.

Summary of Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling?s celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man.

Margaret Cohen?s careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert?s stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students? understanding of middle-class life in nineteenth-century provincial France. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert created a cogent counter discourse that exposed and resisted the dominant intellectual and social ideologies of his age. The novel?s subversion of conventional moral norms inevitably created controversy and eventually led to Flaubert?s prosecution by the French government on charges of offending "public and religious morality." This Norton edition is the only one available that includes the complete manuscript from Flaubert?s 1857 trial. "Criticism" includes sixteen studies regarding the novel?s central themes, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, including essays by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, and Naomi Schor. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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