Madame Bovary(Wordsworth Classics)包法利夫人

WithanIntroductionbyRogerClark,UniversityofKentatCanterburyCastigatedforoffendingagainstpublicdecency,MadameBovaryhasrarelyfailedtocauseastorm.ForFlaubert'scontemporaries,thefascinationcamefromthenovelist'smeticulousaccountofprovincialmatters.Forthewriter,subjectmatterwassubordinatetohisanguishedquestforaestheticperfection.Forhistwentieth-centurysuccessorstheformalexperimentsthatunderpinMadameBovarylookforwardtotheinnovationsofcontemporaryfiction.Flaubertsprotagonistinparticularhasneverceasedtofascinate.Romanticheroineormiddle-classneurotic,flawedwifeandmotherorpassionateprotesteragainsttheconventionsofbourgeoissociety,simultaneouslythesubjectofFlaubertsadmirationandthebuttofhisirony-EmmaBovaryremainsoneofthemostenigmaticoffictionalcreations.Flaubert'smeticulousapproachtothecraftoffiction,hisportrayalofcontemporaryreality,hisrepresentationofanunforgettablecastofcharactersmakeMadameBovaryoneofthemajorlandmarksofmodernfiction.