Madame Bovary av Gustave Flaubert

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<p>¿Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things¿an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with <I>things</I>. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours.¿¿Erica Jong</p><p>"<I>Madame Bovary</I>has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone: it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment."-Henry James</p><p><b>When Gustave Flaubert¿s debut novel Madame Bovary (1856) was published it had already created a great storm of both repulsion and profound admiration; it is now recognized as one of the most important works of literature ever written.</b> When the story initially appeared in serial form it was attacked as a work of blatant indecency , and Flaubert was thrust into immediate celebrity. In the resulting obscenity trial, the author was acquitted, and by its publication