Madame Bovary (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Suicide, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Doctors, Dreams, Adultery, Greed, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Ambition, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: Rouen, France
Places Discussed
*Rouen (rew-AN). City in Normandy where Emma Bovary is educated in a convent school. The home of Gustave Flaubert in his youth, Rouen represents Emma’s first moment of happiness—one that she later regrets. After her first lover abandons her, she returns to Rouen to attend an opera that she hopes will distract her and be a source of healing. This visit to Rouen serves as a transition between the second and third parts of the novel. At the opera Emma again meets the young Léon Dupuis, whom she met in Tostes. The affair they conduct in Rouen effectively...
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