Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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 sentiment, in unquenchable investing and, inevitably, in infidelity. But indeed her issues bring her dissatisfaction, and when genuine life proceeds to come up short to live up to her sentimental desires, the results are annihilating. Flaubert's sexually charged and mentally intense depiction of Emma Bovary caused a ethical objection on its distribution in 1857