Let me be nostalgic about my reading in the good old days; one final fling on my read-on Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, prior a tranquil retirement. I reckon that I ought to settle my inventive imaginations of not being a synonym for Flaubert’s central protagonist Emma Bovary, but being enlightened by Flaubert’s quote that takes my eyes on “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space”. Beyond a shadow of doubt, ‘Madame Bovary’ is a terrific novel; its every page, being decorated with immensely rich and sensibly crafted prose add glamour into the romanticism of the 19th century with its passion in every inch.
Nearly two decades following my studies on ‘19th century French Realism, Gustave Flaubert and his controversial debut masterpiece “Madame Bovary” had infiltrated my bookshelf. The other day, a chum of mine whose research interests have got a deliberate focus onthe Normandy battles in the Middle Ages suggested that I listen to a beguiling and entrancing discussion, aired on BBC radio related to the trial on the ban of ‘Madame Bovary’. Despite the ban, imposed by the then French government, following its first publication in 1856, Madame Bovary, a household name in the 19th century French literature is arguably one of the most persuasive and dominant novels in the 19th century: it is more or less a synonym for French Realism.
Crimes against public morals As, Flaubert was put on trial for crimes agains.