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MADAME BOVARY
G F was born in in Rouen, where his father
was chief surgeon at the hospital. From to he studied law
in Paris, but gave up that career for writing, and set up house at
Croisset in with his widowed mother and niece. Notwithstand-
ing his attachment to them (and to a number of other women),
Flaubert’s art was the centre of his existence, and he devoted his life
to it. His
fi
rst published novel,
Madame Bovary
, appeared in in
serial form, and involved Flaubert in a trial for irreligion and
immorality. On his acquittal the book enjoyed a
succès de scandale
,
and its author’s reputation was established.
Flaubert is often considered a pre-eminent representative of
‘realism’ in literature. It is true that he took enormous trouble over
the documentation of his novels. Even his historical novel
Salammbô
(), set in Carthage at the time of the Punic Wars, involved a trip
to North Africa to gather local colour. But Flaubert’s true obsession
was with style and form, in which he continually sought perfection,
recasting and reading aloud draft after draft.
While enjoying a brilliant social life as a literary celebrity, he
completed a second version of
L’Éducation sentimentale
in .
La
Tentation de Saint Antoine
was published in and
Trois contes
in . Flaubert died in , leaving his last (un
fi
nished) work,
Bouvard et Pécuchet
, to be published the following year.
M M has worked as a translator since . For
Oxford World’s Classics she has translated Zola’s
L’Assommoir
,
Stendhal’s
The Charterhouse of Parma
, Maupassant’s
Bel-Ami
, Con-
stant’s
Adolphe
, and Huysmans’s
Against Nature
(winner of the
Scott Moncrie
ff
prize for translation, ).
M B, formerly Marshal Foch Professor of French
Literature in the University of Oxford, is now Master of Christ’s
College, Cambridge. His publications include
Henri Michaux: A
Study of his Literary Works
(),
Mallarmé and the Art of Being
Dicult
(),
Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction
(),
Lacan
(),
Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory
(),
Proust
among the Stars
(), and the jointly written
A Short History of
French Literature
().
M O taught French at Winchester College.
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Madame Bovary
Provincial Manners
Translated by
MARGARET MAULDON
With an Introduction by
MALCOLM BOWIE
and Notes by
MARK OVERSTALL
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