Showing results by author "Gustave Flaubert" in All Categories

"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert is a tragic tale of a woman's struggle with the confines of provincial life and her unfulfilled romantic and material desires. This podcast examines the life of Emma Bovary and her desperate attempts to escape the mundane through love affairs and reckless spending, leading to devastating consequences.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Madame Bovary narra la oscura tragedia de Emma Bovary, mujer infelizmente casada, cuyos sueños choca cruelmente con la realidad. Al hechizo que ejerce la figura de la protagonista hay que añadir la sabia combinación argumental de rebeldía, violencia, melodrama y sexo, «los cuatro grandes ríos», como afirmó en su día Mario Vargas Llosa, que alimentan esta historia inigualable. La publicación de esta obra en 1857 fue recibida con gran polémica y se procesó a Flaubert por atentar contra la moral.

Le XIXe siècle en France est un âge d'or littéraire, marqué par des courants très affirmés comme le romantisme, le réalisme, le naturalisme ou le symbolisme, et une évolution moderne de la poésie et du roman qui donna naissance à des chefs-d’œuvre en nombre inégalé. Cette collection de citations présente la pensée de sept figures incontournables du XIXe siècle sous forme concise et accessible.

Though he embodies neither wealth nor a lavish persona, Charles Bovary - a somewhat established doctor - takes a chance in marrying the young, vibrant, and ambitious farm girl Emma Rouault. At first, Emma is delighted to be married and away from her father's farm, but her thirst for the rich and ornate lifestyle that she witnesses other people living soon drives her away from her husband and into the arms of various suitors.

In provincial France lives Charles Bovary, a doctor who is in an unhappy marriage, and Emma Roualt, the daughter of a farmer who wishes for a more exciting life. Emma has spent time reading about luxurious lives and whirlwind romances in novels and longs for the day she’ll experience such a life. When this pair crosses paths, there is immediate connection and excitement, and the two are married. But Emma soon finds out that her life is not going to be like her books and finds that married life is less exciting than she had hoped.

Gustave Flaubert was born on 12th December 1821 in Rouen, in Normandy, France. In September 1849, Flaubert completed ‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’. A long journey to the Middle East brought encounters with both female and male prostitutes and a case of syphilis caught in Beirut. On his return he began ‘Madame Bovary’, a work he would take 5 years to complete. He toiled on his unfinished ‘Bouvard et Pécuchet’ but did complete ‘Three Tales’ in 1877, from which ‘The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller’ is taken.

Die romantische Emma langweilt sich in ihrer Ehe mit dem biederen Landarzt Charles Bovary und sucht Ablenkung in den Armen anderer Männer, die sie mit teuren Geschenken überhäuft. Ausschließlich auf die eigenen Bedürfnisse bedacht, stürzt sie ihre Familie in den finanziellen und sozialen Ruin. 1856 erschienen, löste Flauberts Roman einen gesellschaftlichen Skandal aus. Die realistische Darstellung der jungen Ehebrecherin wurde als sittenwidrig erachtet.

Saf Bir Yürek', baş karakteri Félicité'nin hikayesini anlatır. Félicité, saf, yalın bir kalbe sahip bir hizmetçidir. Hayatı boyunca sürekli çeşitli zorluklarla karşı karşıya kalan Félicité'nin en büyük gücü, diğerlerine olan sevgisi ve sabrıdır. Yoksulluk, aşk acısı ve yalnızlık onu yıldıramaz.

Ahead of its time, Flaubert's exploration of the passions of an unfulfilled wife ranks as one of the great novels of the 19th Century.

Emma Bovary is the beautiful, frustrated wife of a provincial doctor. Torn between fantasy and reality, Emma, mesmerising to the opposite sex, embarks upon love affairs that belie her class aspirations, but are true to her soul. Madame Bovary is a compelling portrayal of the intensity of human passion, a characteristic that is Emma's greatest attribute, yet one which ultimately leads to tragedy.

La novela más conocida de Gustave Flaubert y una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal nos acerca a la historia de Emma Rouault, una joven de origen campesino y huérfana de madre que contrae matrimonio con el médico Charles Bovary. El afán por ser la protagonista de una vida romántica presidida por el amor, ambición que su marido no puede satisfacer, será la perdición de la ingenua muchacha, que buscará por todos los medios, con aventuras y con amantes, escapar al tedio, la monotonía y la exasperación que se han apoderado de su vida.

De 1840 à 1867, la vie fait L'éducation sentimentale de Frédéric Moreau et de toute une jeunesse idéaliste qui a préparé dans la fièvre la révolution de 1848. Le roman s'ouvre sur des rêves exaltés et s'achève sur la médiocrité des uns et des autres. Entre temps, la vie s'est écoulée autour de Frédéric, qui semble n'avoir pas plus participé aux mutations de son temps qu'à l'édifice de sa propre destinée potentielle. Au cours de cette existence, Madame Arnoux, dont les apparitions sont autant de surgissements mystiques, tient lieu au jeune homme d'absolu insaisissable.

När den alldaglige Charles Bovary lydde sin mors råd och gifte sig med änkan Héloïse Dubuc, var det med hennes påstådda förmögenhet i åtanke. Först efteråt stod det klart att några rikedomar inte fanns att tillgå i det kärlekslösa äktenskapet. Men när Charles en dag åker ut till en godsägare för att hjälpa honom med ett brutet ben, träffar han dennes dotter Emma. Den unga kvinnan har en omåttlig aptit för romaner och längtar efter ett liv fyllt av storslagen kärlek, njutning och lyx. Det dröjer inte länge förrän Charles är upp över öronen förälskad.

受过教育的农家女孩爱玛嫁给乡医包法利，却向往更奢华浪漫的生活，在历经两次出轨，面对累累负债后爱玛在绝望之余吃下砒霜……受過教育的農家女孩愛瑪嫁給鄉醫包法利，卻嚮往更奢華浪漫的生活，在歷經兩次出軌，面對累累負債後愛瑪在絕望之餘吃下砒霜……

Gustave Flaubert is one of the major figures of French literature. He was made famous by his first novel, "Madame Bovary", and is also remembered for his Correspondance, full of precise introspection and reflections about realism in literature. Flaubert was known for his unvelievably scrupulous devotion to his style. He believed in the possibility and necessity of finding "le mot juste" ("the right word"), and would devout weeks to the achievement of sometimes a single page. Flaubert decisively established what most readers and writers now think of as modern realist narration, and his influence today is almost too familiar to be visible.

Back by popular demand, Jennifer Egan ( A Visit from the Goon Squad), Siri Hustvedt ( The Blazing World), and Margot Livesey ( The Flight of Gemma Hardy) revisit Gustave Flaubert's classic in a lively discussion. With a reading by Amanda Quaid ( Pericles at the Public Theater).

Emma Bovary's quest for love and romance leads her deeper and deeper into financial trouble and moral degradation.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and the consequences are devastating.

Gustave Flaubert es una de las principales figuras de la literatura francesa. Se hizo famoso por su primera novela, Madame Bovary, y también es recordado por su Correspondencia, llena de precisas introspecciones y reflexiones sobre el realismo en la literatura. Flaubert era conocido por su increíblemente escrupulosa devoción a su estilo. Creía en la posibilidad y la necesidad de encontrar "le mot juste" ("la palabra justa"), y dedicaba semanas al logro de, a veces, una sola página.

Flaubert reprend ici la légende de Julien l'Hospitalier en un conte flamboyant où le sang et la violence le disputent au mystique de la rédemption...