The story was accused of obscenity when it started being serialized in 1856, leading to a public trial for Flaubert and widespread interest when it was released as a book in 1857. The novel was extremely successful in its time, mostly due to the scandal it caused upon release. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Madame Bovary is a nineteenth-century French novel by Gustave Flaubert. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. Above all, the book brings out the poetic density and beauty of Flaubert’s novels: the poetry of loss and constriction, the poetry of subjective time, the tragic poetry of frustration, and the poetry of unconquerable dreams. While many people can quote Madame Bovary (She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris), and most aspire to sympathize with Sentimental Education, there are few novels that skewer today’s post-truth politics and information-saturated social media better than Flaubert’s masterpiece. The vision of Flaubert emerges, showing his artistic relevance to his time and to our own. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the features which contribute to Flaubert’s total vision, while respecting the integrity of each work and discussing each novel in its own terms. Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert’s art in relation to his tragic themes. Gustave Flaubert Books The Guardian Gustave Flaubert February 2023 The Oyster Problem review the struggle to save Flaubert from himself In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal.

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