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Searching for Emma - Gustave Flaubert and "Madame Bovary" (Hardcover)
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Searching for Emma - Gustave Flaubert and "Madame Bovary" (Hardcover)
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Although many writers blend autobiography and fiction, few have
been so forthright in admitting it as Gustave Flaubert. In
reference to his legendary novel and protagonist, he wrote: "Madame
Bovary, c'est moi." Madame Bovary has become an icon for casual
readers and feminists alike, but, as Dacia Maraini argues, she is
one of the most problematic, though fascinating, female
protagonists in modern literature. In this lively, learned, and
very personal study, Maraini explores the profound and
contradictory relationship between the writer Flaubert and the
character his readers have grown to love. Maraini argues that in
their desire to claim Emma Bovary as a standard-bearer of revolt,
women have often overlooked the bitter, pitiless way in which
Flaubert evokes Emma's insignificance and vulgarity. Searching for
Emma guides the reader through Flaubert's novel and many of his
letters, seeking out the sources of his obsessive cruelty toward
Emma. Maraini relates Flaubert's contempt for Emma to his
relationship with his mistress, Louise Colet, to his general terror
of women, and to his own self-loathing. It was entirely in spite of
himself, Maraini writes, that Flaubert created the female Don
Quixote so admired for her restlessness and determination.
Searching for Emma offers a novelist's insight into the complex
relationship between author and character, and into the deepest
motivations of fiction.
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