Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary
Written by Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by Claire Bloom
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.
Gustave Flaubert
«Yo celebro que Emma Bovary ?ha escrito Vargas Llosa? en vez de sofocar sus sentidos tratara de colmarlos, que no tuviera escrúpulo en confundir el cul y el coeur, que, de hecho, son parientes cercanos, y que fuera capaz de creer que la luna existía para alumbrar su alcoba.»No han dejado de correr ríos de tinta en torno a La señora Bovary, que hoy presentamos en una nueva traducción de María Teresa Gallego Urrutia. Defendida en su día por Baudelaire y Sainte-Beuve, reivindicada por Zola y el naturalismo, rescatada por Sartre y los autores del nouveau roman, admirada por Nabókov, es aún hoy un modelo central de lo que debe y no debe ser una novela. La historia de un adulterio en una ciudad de provincias, sin grandes personajes ni ambientes fastuosos, tuvo un aspecto tan realista que las instituciones se vieron agredidas y abrieron un proceso judicial contra el autor, del que saldría absuelto y que le reportó una fama sin precedentes. Gustave Flaubert nació en Ruán en 1821. En 1843 empezó a escribir la primera versión de lo que luego sería La educación sentimental (Alba Clásica núm. liv). En 1851 inició la redacción de La señora Bovary, que se publicaría cinco años después, acarreándole un proceso judicial del que saldría absuelto. El proceso, sin embargo, aseguró el éxito del libro. Publicaría luego la novela histórica Salambó (1962), La educación sentimental (1869), La tentación de San Antonio (1874) y Tres cuentos (1877): los únicos textos, de las más de ocho mil páginas que escribió, que permitió, en su afán perfeccionista, que vieran la luz pública. Murió en 1880 en Canteleu.
More audiobooks from Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Top 10 Short Stories, The - European Murder: The ten best murder short stories of all time by European authors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Madame Bovary
Related audiobooks
The Odd Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tales of Mystery & Imagination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notre Dame de Paris Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Marriage Wheel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Rakehell's Seduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House of the Seven Gables Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nightmare Abbey: Unabridged Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Old Wives' Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo the Lighthouse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Host in the Attic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 4 (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 16 (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Book 14 (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLittle Eyolf Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld and New Masters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bishop's Secret Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Ring and the Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Classics For You
The Fountainhead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Winnie-the-Pooh - Unabridged Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Atlas Shrugged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Thousand Ships: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stone Blind: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Treasure Island Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Perks of Being a Wallflower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Schindler's List Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CATCH-22 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Complete Tales and Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cider House Rules Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Sherlock Holmes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emma: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Madame Bovary
1 rating0 reviews