Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary is a landmark 1857 realist novel by Gustave Flaubert that portrays the tragic life and romantic disillusionment of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife.

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Madame Bovary canonical 10
Emma Bovary 3
Madame Bovary (1991 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
realist novel
author Gustave Flaubert
centralConflict clash between romantic ideals and provincial reality
character Berthe Bovary
Charles Bovary
Hippolyte
Léon Dupuis
Monsieur Homais
Rodolphe Boulanger
controversy obscenity trial
countryOfOrigin France
ending suicide of Emma Bovary
firstPublicationFormat serial
firstPublicationVenue Revue de Paris
firstPublicationYear 1856
genre literary fiction
realism
hasAdaptation Madame Bovary (1949 film)
Madame Bovary (1991 film)
Madame Bovary (2014 film)
opera adaptations
influenced modernist literature
realist novel tradition
legalIssue Flaubert obscenity trial of 1857
literaryPeriod 19th-century literature
literarySignificance landmark of realist fiction
mainCharacter Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
surface form: Emma Bovary
narrativePerspective third-person
narrativeTechnique free indirect discourse
originalLanguage French
outcomeOfTrial acquittal
placeOfFirstPublication Paris
protagonist Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
surface form: Emma Bovary
publicationYear 1857
publisher Michel Lévy frères
surface form: Michel Lévy Frères
setting Normandy
provincial France
theme adultery
boredom
consumerism
debt
marital dissatisfaction
provincial life
romantic disillusionment
social class
suicide
titleCharacter Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
surface form: Emma Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert notableWork Madame Bovary
Claude Chabrol notableWork Madame Bovary
this entity surface form: Madame Bovary (1991 film)
French literature hasNotableWork Madame Bovary
Jennifer Jones notableWork Madame Bovary
Van Heflin notableWork Madame Bovary
Van Heflin performedIn Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary mainCharacter Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Emma Bovary
Madame Bovary protagonist Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Emma Bovary
Madame Bovary titleCharacter Madame Bovary self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Emma Bovary
Sentimental Education follows Madame Bovary
Salammbô precededBy Madame Bovary
Eleanor Marx translatedWork Madame Bovary
Adam Thorpe hasTranslated Madame Bovary