Madame Bovary Backlist We have a postmodern architecture

We have a postmodern architecture

Know it all and never ask for help

In his signature style—by turns analytical

in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her

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Madame Bovary Backlist We have a postmodern architectureMadame Bovary is Flaubert's masterpiece, initially a succes de scandale and now a landmark in European literature. He took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, and invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style to match. His heroine is Emma, a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband Charles Bovary to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.