Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France. After briefly studying law in Paris, he returned to Rouen, and in 1850 began writing his first published novel, Madame Bovary . It took him five years to complete and was met with outrage...
Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new tra...
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a French writer who is considered to be among the greatest novelists in Western literature. This book contains his five greatest novels, in a single volume: Madame Bovary is the wife of a benevolent doctor, but longs...
Two operas with classical themes. SALAMMBÔ by Camille du Locle is based on Gustave Flauberts well-known novel of the same name. The story is set in Carthage after the First Punic War, when mercenaries hired by the state revolt for lack of payment....
«No hay temas nobles ni innobles; desde el punto de vista del Arte puro.. no existe eso llamado tema, el estilo en sí mismo es una manera absoluta de ver las cosas.. Todo lo que uno inventa es verdad.. La poesía es tan precisa como...
Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads. When she moves to a rural town in France,...