SUMMARY - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.


*As you read this summary, you will discover that trying to enchant your life is not necessarily a good way to escape boredom.


*You will also discover : what attempts and means to escape boredom are found in the novel; that boredom arises from the social and cultural conditions in which you live; that the problem of boredom lies in its eternal return; why it is in a sense ridiculous to want to escape boredom at all costs.


*Madame Bovary, which caused a scandal when it appeared in 1857, is undoubtedly more a novel of boredom than a novel of adultery. Certainly, Emma Bovary ends up seeking in extramarital relationships the means to quench her thirst for the sublime. However, she does so in order to seek the fulfillment of the desire for love mythified by literature, but also to escape the monotony of her life as an unmarried woman. Is it possible to escape boredom?


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