by Gustave Flaubert · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423973279
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«Madame Bovary» is the novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (445 pages, in Spanish).
Emma Bovary, married and trapped in a monotonous life, seeks to escape her routine by giving herself over to passionate affairs and luxury spending. Her desire to attain emotions and appearances beyond her reach drags her toward ruin and despair, in a classic of nineteenth-century French fiction.
This edition belongs to the Austral Collection (no. 327), edited and translated by Juan Bravo Castillo. The original work was published in 1856.
Aimed at readers of classic novels who want to approach one of the landmarks of nineteenth-century European fiction.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
