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Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

by Stephen Heath · 1992

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In addition to representing Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, the controversial novel is viewed as an example of the author's commitment to the impersonality of Art and the transcendence of style.

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short · 180 pages

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