Madame Bovary

“Madame Bovary” by Gustaf Flober is a recognized masterpiece of world classics and a reference to French psychological realism. This is a tragic and miserable story about the destructive power of romantic illusions, the search for passion and the inevitable collision of the fictional ideal with the gray reality of provincial life. The story is in the center of a young Emma Roo, raised on sentimental love novels. Getting married to the kind but limited and boring doctor Charles Bovary, she quickly realizes that family life has nothing to do with her dirty dreams. In an attempt to escape from the prison of the city’s boring, Emma leaves her into all the hard: she seeks salvation in secret love relationships and binds her into unbeatable luxury spending. However, the dirty novels only strengthen the spiritual emptiness, and the accumulated financial debt unmotively approaches the catastrophe.Flober with a philigrate accuracy and aesthetic perfection explores the phenomenon of "bowarism" - a tragic tendency to replace reality with fantasies. “Madame Bovary” is an immortal drama about human passions, loneliness and high price, which must be paid for the blind follow of illusions. ** About what the book in three words: ** Illusions, Passion, Destruction. **Who to read:** To the lovers of the immortal classics of the nineteenth century, to the fans of the perfect literary style, to the lovers of deep psychological dramas and to all who are interested in honest stories about human errors and the search for happiness.