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Una mujer en busca de un ideal inalcanzable. Flaubert logro en su retrato de Madame Bovary una de las mayores creaciones de toda la literatura, por que mostro un personaje universal, una mujer nunca satisfecha y cuyo errado ideal la lleva al adulterio y a su propia destruccion.

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature: Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering, corruption, and downfall.

This work consists of the short stories "A Simple Soul", "Saint Julian the Hospitalier," and "Dance of Death"."The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" - Julian is predicted at birth to do great things. His father is told that he will marry into the family of a great emperor, while his mother is told he will be a saint. However, Julian joins a band of vagrants, and they eventually grow into a huge army under his control.

One of the great novels of 19th-century France, Flaubert draws a deeply-felt but sympathetic portrait of a woman who, having warned a country doctor and found herself unhappy with a rural, genteel existence, longs for love and excitement. Her aspirations and her desires lead her into a tragic spiral downwards.

Madame Bovary ist wohl einer der bekanntesten Frauenromane überhaupt und hat eine Unzahl Nachfolger gefunden. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, das es sich um ein Erstlingsroman handelt.

"The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" is a short story by French writer Gustave Flaubert, one of the great masters of literary style and aesthetics. Saint Julian is predicted at birth to do great things, but a growing hatred takes root in him, leading him to seek a way to escape a destiny which seems more and more likely to be terrible. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" is an inspiring tale of perseverance and humility, one of Flaubert's most touching short stories with a religious theme.

Le chef d'œuvre de Flaubert lu par Félix Moati. Depuis cent cinquante ans, cette pauvre Emma Bovary souffre et pleure dans cent, dans mille villages et villes de France. Parce qu'elle ne sait pas vivre, ni aimer, elle rêve ses amours et sa vie. Et cependant elle est belle, sensuelle, audacieuse. Mais une imagination déréglée, l'exaltation romanesque, un époux médiocre et obtus, l'absurde goût du luxe et des amants méprisables vont l'entraîner dans la ruine et une mort affreuse.

"Un cœur simple", "La Légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier" et "Hérodias", composent les Trois contes de Gustave Flaubert, soit sa dernière production romanesque achevée et une de ses plus brillantes. "Un cœur simple" raconte la vie de Félicité, fille de campagne, devenue servante de la petite bourgeoisie locale. Dévote et mystique, elle finit par s'attacher de manière démesurée à un perroquet. "La Légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier" retrace la vie d'un jeune homme, Julien, qui se voit prédire par un cerf qu'il tuera ses parents.

"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.

Enjoy the short stories of three of the greatest writers of French literature, for the first time assembled together in audiobook and narrated in a lively way. Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. He produced more than 300 short stories; we selected for you nine of the most bizarre, influent, humorous or plain shocking.

This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.

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.

Félicité, une jeune paysanne que son fiancé a trahie, se place comme servante chez une bourgeoise de Pont-Lévêque, Madame Aubain, chez qui elle passera toute sa vie.

Cuando la joven y bella Emma Rouault accede a casarse con Charles Bovary confía en que su vida se convierta en una novela romántica como las que devora sin parar. Sin embargo, la cruda y monótona realidad de su día a día la hunde en una perpetua depresión de la que sólo es capaz de salir espoleada por amantes esporádicos que oculta a su esposo. Pero la incapacidad para mantener a estos amantes a su lado y el regreso constante a la monotonía y el aburrimiento convertirán la esperada novela romántica de Madame Bovary en una tragedia.

"Herodias" is a short story by Gustave Flaubert, one of the great masters of French literature. It is a reworking of the tale of Salomé and John the Baptist, in which faith and cruelty are blended in a deadly dance culminating in tragedy. A stylistic masterpiece, with orientalist sensuality and an inspired dive into religious fervor, this short story brings the ancient era to the most colorful possible life.

Amor y traicion en la antigua Cartago. Mientras las hordas romanas asedian y esperan el momento de invadir Cartago, la sacerdotisa del templo de la diosa Tanit, Salambo, ama y es amada. Ella es la hija de Amilcar, el gran general cartagines y para recobrar el perdido velo que ha caido en manos del adversario, tiene que entregarse al general enemigo, que por Salambo olvida patria y honor.

Publié en 1857 par Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary est un roman réaliste qui dépeint la vie et les désillusions de la jeune Emma Bovary. Épouse de Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne simple et dévoué, Emma rêve d’une vie passionnée et raffinée, bien loin de son existence monotone. Ses lectures romantiques la nourrissent d’aspirations idéalistes et la poussent à rechercher des amours et des plaisirs interdits, espérant ainsi échapper à la banalité de son quotidien.

Madame Bovary è il romanzo più famoso di Gustave Flaubert. Pubblicato nel 1856...

"The Legend of Saint Julian", "A Simple Soul", and "Herodias" are told here in their beautiful early translation.

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).