Biographical noteGustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880. Geoffrey Wall teaches French at the University of York. His biography of Flaubert has been translated into four languages. Michèle Roberts is the half-English half-French writer of ten highly praised novels. Main descriptionGustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.' Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was born in Rouen. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert achieved limited success in his own lifetime - but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death. If you enjoyed Madame Bovary you might also like Stendhal's The Red and the Black, also available in Penguin Classics. 'Its beauty is enchanting and terrible'A.S. Byatt, author of Possession 'An extraordinarily innovative work: its style was at once ironic and lyrical, detached and passionate, ambiguous and precise'Kate Summerscale
Après la première guerre punique, Carthage est ruinée et ne peut plus payer ses mercenaires, qui décident de se révolter.
Au milieu des désordres et des massacres, Salammbô, la fille du suffète Hamilcar, s'éprend de Mâtho, le chef des rebelles... Entre romantisme et symbolisme, Flaubert fait surgir le mirage d'une cité disparue, d'un Orient barbare et rutilant, qui fascinera des générations de lecteurs.
En 1849, à l'âge de vingt-sept ans, Gustave Flaubert part pour l'Orient en compagnie de son ami Maxime Du Camp. Il n'y a pas d'itinéraire précis, l'idée est de se familiariser avec les coutumes et les grandes religions de l'Orient. L'essentiel du voyage se déroule en Égypte, où l'armée de Napoléon a combattu un demi-siècle auparavant. L'écrivain a ainsi transcrit les impressions de son voyage dans un carnet, tandis que Du Camp s'est concentré sur la photographie. Mais c'est dans sa correspondance que l'on trouve les documents le plus saisissant : les lettres à sa mère et à son ami Louis Bouilhet sont pleines de vie, d'anecdotes, de récits, de descriptions et de réflexions. L'écrivain ne recule devant aucune expérience, et l'Égypte prend ainsi vie dans toute son immédiateté, la dimension exotique se mêlant au quotidien.Cette édition, la plus complète parue en italien à ce jour, offre au lecteur un livre à la hauteur des chefs-d'oeuvre de l'écrivain français.
Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a sensibility on tour, Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writers impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flauberts traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.
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La colección «Conocer una obra» os ofrece la posibilidad de saberlo todo sobre Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert, gracias a una guia de lectura tan completa como detallada.
Su escritura, clara y accesible, fue confiada a un especialista académico. Esta guia de lectura responde a unos estandares de calidad definidos por un equipo de profesores. Este libro contiene la biografia de Gustave Flaubert, la presentación de la obra, el resumen detallado (capitulo por capitulo), los motivos de su éxito, los temas principales y el analisis del movimiento literario del autor.
