Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary, his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, caught in her marriage to a unremarkable specialist and smothered by the triviality of common life. An enthusiastic devourer of nostalgic books, she yearns for energy and looks for elude in fantasies of tall sentim...
