Emma, who has spent years living in a convent and fantasizing about love and romance, falls instantly in love with Charles. Flaubert then illustrates his point by telling the court the story of Emma, beginning when she was twenty years old and living a lonely life on her father's farm: One night, a country physician named Charles Bovary arrives at the farm to examine Emma's father, who has an injured leg. ![]() In response, Flaubert contends that his story is about forgiveness and that many women like Emma exist in the real world. (Summary by Peter Dann)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit 1857, French author Gustave Flaubert is ordered to stand trial to defend accusations that his novel, Madame Bovary, is "an outrage against public morals and established customs." During the trial, prosecutors argue that the subject of the book, Emma Bovary, is a "disgrace to France and an insult to womanhood," and that the book should be banned for its indecency. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. ![]() Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. LibriVox recording of Madame Bovary (Version 2) by Gustave Flaubert.
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