Madame Bovary

One of the most famous novels about love and the inevitable clash between imaginary romance and real life has long been considered one of the key works that had the greatest influence on world literature. The story of Emma Rouault, the daughter of a farmer who was raised in a convent of Ursulines and dreamed of romance and celestial love, but after marrying a provincial doctor quickly began to languish in bourgeois life and set out on a path of romantic adventures. “Emma Bovary is me,” said Flaubert, who aimed to show in his novel the underlying reality of bourgeois life in France in the first half of the 19th century.