This month’s read: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Join us to discuss Flaubert's masterpiece of literary realism, first serialized in 1856 and published as a book in 1857. The novel follows Emma Bovary, a dissatisfied woman whose longing for romance and excitement leads her beyond the boundaries of her everyday life, with devastating consequences.
Spaces are limited; RSVP required. You are welcome to participate regardless of whether you've finished the book. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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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 devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.
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