by Gustave Flaubert · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788492549030
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«Madame Bovary: Costums de província» is the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by labutxaca in paperback (384 pages, in Catalan).
Emma Bovary, educated in a bourgeois environment and given to romantic daydreams, feels imprisoned in a grey marriage in provincial France. To escape tedium, she seeks refuge in love affairs that only deepen her disillusionment. Flaubert traces the clash between individual dreams and the social conventions of his time.
Catalan edition translated by Lluís Maria Todó and published in September 2008 in the Labutxaca collection. The original work, from 1857, led Flaubert to trial for immorality.
For readers of 19th-century classics, French literature, and novels of social portraiture.
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.
