In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with...
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks...
Product Description Charles Bovary, officier de santé médiocre malgré de laborieuses études, épouse en secondes noces Emma Rouault, la fille d'un gros fermier des environs de Tostes. Élevée dans...