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Madame Bovary and its Cinematic Adaptation in English

Authors :
Soni Sharma
Soni Sharma
Source :
The Creative Launcher; Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017): October, 2017; 224-231; 2455-6580; ark:/72165/thecreativelauncher.v2i4
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Madame Bovary, a classic novel by Gustave Flaubert in 1856 already created a stir in the society so its Film Adaptation whether in Hindi or English. Already filmed by Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 classic Madame Bovary does another neurotic tango through the villages of Normandy in this latest adaptation of the seminal French classic about the ambitious wife of a simple country doctor whose adulterous affairs and mounting debts to escape the boredom of a dead-end life destroy her husband’s career, her reputation and eventually her life. The results are realistic and refined, but uneven and disappointing.  When Gustave Flaubert's first novel came out, there was a very French reaction they put the language of the book on trial. The ostensible charge was obscenity, but the trial went much deeper. The prosecutor argued that the novel's realism was itself immoral: an offence against art. Flaubert was acquitted but they were dead right about his aims. Madame Bovary was a bomb thrown at romanticism.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Journal :
The Creative Launcher; Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017): October, 2017; 224-231; 2455-6580; ark:/72165/thecreativelauncher.v2i4
Notes :
application/pdf, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1372631653
Document Type :
Electronic Resource