Madame Bovary

Author's name: Gustave Flaubert Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2010 Literary classification: Timeless works Brief about the book: "Madame Bovary" is one of the most wonderful novels known to world literature in the last century, if not the most wonderful of all. Gustave Flaubert, the greatest French novelist along with Balzac in the nineteenth century, dedicated this work to the victory of realism over romanticism; and from here its deep influence on the course of contemporary world novel. When "Madame Bovary" was published, the French public prosecution filed a lawsuit against Flaubert on charges of immorality, but the writer's lawyer delivered a magnificent speech defending the novel eloquently, and the court could only acquit the novel and consider it an excellent artistic work. You are not among those who condemn books for a few lines, but among those who judge primarily by the idea and the methods used. And those who will ask themselves the question I began my speech with, and which I end it with: does reading such a book suggest a love of vice or suggest the ugliness of vice? Reading this book cannot produce any effect other than what it has produced, which is that this book is excellent overall.