It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century ...

I’ve always loved Gustave Flaubert. Not his work, exactly, since until recently I hadn’t actually read any of it, but the idea of him. Here was a writer who had been satisfied to produce two polished ...

French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulteress ...

Attention novelists, the jig is up! To heck with the devil, God, fate, free will, the soul, love, hate, hope, fear, purloined letters, mistaken identity or unexpected inheritances. What really ...

Already filmed by Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 classic Madame Bovary does another neurotic tango. Mia Wasikowska channels Flaubert. Already filmed by Jean ...

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT was a very unusual man. The French are of the opinion that he was a genius. If I were pressed to say what genius this twentieth century of ours has produced, I think that Albert ...