Gustave Flaubert
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The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads...
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Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
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LA TENTATION DE SAINT ANTOINE raconte les visions diaboliques qui hantent l'ermite retiré dans le désert d'Égypte. Elles l'attirent, l'aimantent, le submergent. Plusieurs personnages se succèdent dans des tableaux plus somptueux et fantasmagoriques les uns que les autres. Ces apparitions le séduisent, l'impressionnent, en même temps qu'elles l'alertent puisqu'il y est question de luxure, des affres du pouvoir, de l'attraction de la science.
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Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross again and again over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil, and countless affairs, Mme. Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's
...5) Three tales
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Published at the end of Flaubert's career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In 'A Simple Heart' (the inspiration for Julian Barnes's novel Flaubert's Parrot), a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones. 'The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller', based on a stained-glass window in Rouen Cathedral, presents...
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One single noise reached her ears now, the voice of the parrot.
With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work...
With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work...
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First published in 1869, this novel offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a crucial period of European history. Flaubert combines intricate political and social upheaval with a close scrutiny of individual motives to produce one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
10) Madame Bovary
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A woman, not satisfied with the limited life she leads, rebels against conventional society, and finds tragedy.