scholarly journals Dullness Versus Vivacity: A Study of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Himani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Madame Bovary

An ideal marriage is a state of being equal in every way which is built on a healthy dose of admiration, on understanding, dedication, trust and loyalty. French novelist Gustave Flaubert has raised the same issue in his most discussed work Madame Bovary. Flaubert was most notable for being the leading exponent of literary realism in French literature. There were writers before Flaubert who tried their hands at realism but not all of them, as was the case in the work of Flaubert. The fiction Madame Bovary is a dedication to its heroine’s sentiments. Though she has been tagged, adulterous, a failed wife and failed mother, we feel pity for her. She really demands our sympathy since she was unable to achieve that eternal pleasure throughout her whole life. Her mere guilt was her sensible nature which shattered all her dreams. The present paper is an attempt to study her innocence by analysing her nature, sentiments and imagination in depth.

Trois scènes de bal dans le roman français (« La Princesse de Clèves », « Madame Bovary », « Le Ravissement de Lol V Stein »)

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Marius Popa
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
French Novel ◽  
Madame De Lafayette

"Three Ball Scenes in the French Novel (“La Princesse de Clèves”, “Madame Bovary”, “Le Ravissement de Lol V Stein”). This article aims to analyze – in a comparative manner – three ball scenes from novels belonging to leading authors of French literature (Madame de Lafayette, Gustave Flaubert and Marguerite Duras), highlighting a series of dramatic mechanisms used by novelists in the construction of such a diegetic plot. If La Princesse de Clèves describes a ball that takes place in the royal court, with all the typical scenes of the time (embodied in a real mixture of intrigue and gallantry specific to the living environment of the actors, which make the topos of the novel itself become a collective character), Madame Bovary describes, instead, a ball animated by the high society of the nineteenth century, with all the specifics of the realistic episteme (the ball becomes here an opportunity to evoke the painful contrast between different living environments, which the heroine cannot access and which causes her, consequently, to take refuge in an imaginary universe). Much closer to the spirit of contemporaneity, Le Ravissement de Lol V Stein, the famous “nouveau roman”, relies on an image of the harmful and destructive ball, paying particular attention to the psyche of the characters. These novels lean – starting from this narrative pretext of the ball – on some love stories built through specific strategies of the theatre, which is, in essence, the central object of our analysis. Keywords: ball scenes, French Novel, dramatic mechanisms, narrative pretext, love stories."

Las ideologías antagónicas de Homais y Bournisien en Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert

2008 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Milagros Rojo Guiñazú
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Madame Bovary

<p>Homais era el predilecto lector que disfruta y cree poderosamente en la escritura de Voltaire y Rousseau, quizás por su cientificismo o tal vez porque él también es uno de los grandes rivales de la iglesia en la novela de Flaubert. Es, sin lugar a dudas, la representación parodiada, ironiz.ada, ridiculizada- del cientificismo volteriano.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals O suicídio de Emma Bovary: Considerações sobre o morrer na obra de Gustave Flaubert

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (42) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Pedro Walisson Gomes Feitosa ◽  
Fábio Gomes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Madame Bovary

Este artigo parte da análise literária e psicossocial sobre o suicídio, utilizan­do como objeto de estudo a personagem Emma Bovary, da obra-prima de Gustave Flaubert, publicado em 1856, na França. Designado como precursor da escola literária do realismo, Flaubert desenhou uma personagem com uma série de nuances que representam dignamente os costumes burgueses europeus da segunda metade do século XIX, bem como transparecem o lugar reservado à mu­lher neste contexto cultural. O realismo apre­sentado em Madame Bovary tornou o romance bastante discutido no decorrer dos séculos. Quan­do publicado em pleno século XIX, a obra erou impactos por toda sociedade, sendo proibida sua publicação na época. Entretanto, a história desenhada minuciosamente por Flaubert sustenta-se atual, pois refere-se tanto ao matar a si como refúgio de uma vida massacrante, como ao enigma da feminilidade ao longo da história, ambas percepções atemporais.  

scholarly journals “Sobre essa grande esteira rolante que são as páginas de Flaubert”: procurando os motivosnos quadrosde Madame Bovary

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-288
Author(s):  
Hêmille Raquel Santos Perdigão
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Madame Bovary

Na leitura dos textos de Nabokov e Auerbach acerca de Madame Bovary, obra escrita por Gustave Flaubert, surgem as classificações do romance como pseudossubjetivo e objetivo, respectivamente. Partindo dessas leituras, o presente trabalho questiona sobre o romance ser, de fato, objetivo, com a hipótese de que o que se tem, na verdade, é uma subjetividade, visto que o ponto de vista da protagonista é predominante. Em seguida, são apresentadas pinturas que mais se aproximam do estilo do romance, pelas características de riqueza de detalhes, desierarquização dos acontecimentos e posicionamento do leitor com uma visão parcial das cenas.Palavras-chave: Flaubert. Objetividade. Subjetividade. Quadros.

‘Nous ne suivons pas la même route’: Flaubertian Objectivity and Mansfield’s Representations of Travel

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Keel Geheber
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
In Transit

This chapter offers a reading of Mansfield’s ‘Urewera Notebook’, which features notes on Gustave Flaubert as well as diary entries and vignettes of travelling lone women, to first situate Mansfield’s early aesthetic interests in objectively representing characters in transit. It then argues that Mansfield’s 1915 story ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ is a feminist transposition of the infamous cab ride of Madame Bovary into a French WWI setting. Mansfield’s translation of Flaubertian objectivity and tropes from Madame Bovary to suit her own perspective and context exemplifies how this mode of thematic and aesthetic translation functions as a generative mode of literary production.

Análise de adaptações cinematográficas baseadas em obras canônicas da literatura: os casos de Jane Eyre e Madame Bovary

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Cynthia Beatrice Costa
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Madame Bovary

Clássicos da literatura sempre estiveram presentes nas telas. Dois desses clássicos, Jane Eyre (1847), de Charlotte Brontë, e Madame Bovary (1856), de Gustave Flaubert, acumulam, respectivamente, cerca de 30 e de 15 adaptações televisivas e cinematográficas – uma história multimidiática que impacta a renovação constante desses romances em nosso imaginário.

scholarly journals L’ennui chez Madame Bovary: justification ou condamnation?

Non Plus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Grace Alves da Paixão ◽  
Anaximandro Oliveira Santos Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Comme Base

Ce travail a pour but de montrer comment l’ennui chez le personnage Madame Bovary (du roman éponyme) fut le déclencheur du scandale et par conséquent du procès judiciaire de Gustave Flaubert, auteur du roman. Ainsi, on propose un article divisé en quatre parties : une où l’on parle de l’auteur ; une où l’on parle de l’ouvrage ; une où l’on parle du procès à proprement parler (et comment le langage y fut question d’importance) ; et une dernière où l’on analyse la question même de l’ennui grâce à des passages du roman. Pour cela, on adopte une méthodologie de révision bibliographique ayant comme base le livre Madame Bovary no tribunal do júri : do crime ao castigo ? (2011), de la professeure Telma Boudou.

Review. Gustave Flaubert: 'Madame Bovary'. Heath, Stephen

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-481
Author(s):  
D. A. WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Madame Bovary

scholarly journals Fiction as a Medium of Social Communication in 19th Century France

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic ◽  
Sabina Pstrocki-Sehovic
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Comedie Humaine ◽  
19Th Century France ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Fleurs Du Mal

This article will present the extent to which literature could be viewed as means of social communication – i.e. informing and influencing society – in 19thcentury France, by analysing the appearance of three authors at different points:  the beginning, the middle and the end of the century. The first is the case of Balzac at the beginning of the 19th Century who becomes the most successful novelist of the century in France and who, in his prolific expression and rich vocabulary, portrays society from various angles in a huge opus of almost 100 works, 93 of them making his Comédie humaine. The second is the case of Gustave Flaubert whose famous novel Madame Bovary, which depicts a female character in a realist but also in a psychologically conscious manner, around the mid-19th century reaches French courts together with Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire and is exposed as being socially judged for its alleged immorality. The last is the political affair of Dreyfus and its defender Emile Zola, the father of naturalism. This case confirms the establishment of more intense relations between writer and politics and builds a solid way for a more conscious and everyday political engagement in the literary world from the end of the 19th century onwards. These three are the most important cases which illustrate how fiction functioned in relation to society, state and readership in 19th century France.

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