Madame Bovary (translation 40)
About This Novel
Flaubert was a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, and "Madame Bovary" is his famous and representative work. The heroine of this book, Emma, is the daughter of a wealthy farmer from another province. She spent her youth in a monastery. She learned the conversational manners of aristocratic women and read a lot of romantic works. Later, her bankrupt father married her to Bovary, a mediocre and slow town doctor. This made Emma, who was obsessed with romantic life, uncomfortable at home, so she became the mistress of the landowner Rodolphe and the clerk Leon successively. In order to please Leon and maintain a luxurious life, she squandered her husband's property and took out loan sharks. Later, Leon became tired of her and her creditors pressed her for debt. She was desperate and committed suicide by taking arsenic.
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