Los mejores libros jamas escritos.
La novela mas 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 huerfana de madre que contrae matrimonio con el medico Charles Bovary. El afan por ser la protagonista de una vida romantica presidida por el amor, ambicion que su marido no puede satisfacer, sera la perdicion de la ingenua muchacha, que buscara por todos los medios, con aventuras y con amantes, escapar al tedio, la monotonia y la exasperacion que se han apoderado de su vida.
La presente edicion, en reciente traduccion de Mauro Armino, incluye los fragmentos, descubiertos entre los manuscritos de Flaubert, que el autor decidio a ultima hora no incluir en la novela. Completan el volumen un estudio introductorio de Jacques Neefs, de la Johns Hopkins University, y una cronologia flaubertiana.
Intentaba saber que se entendia exactamente en la vida por las palabras felicidad , pasion y ebriedad , que tan hermosas le habian parecido en los libros.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The best books never written.
Gustave Flaubert’s best-known novel and one of the great works of world literature brings us closer to the story of Emma Rouault, a young, orphaned woman of peasant origin who marries the doctor Charles Bovary. Her desire to be the protagonist of a romantic life presided over by love, an ambition that her husband cannot satisfy, will be the downfall of the naive girl, who will try by any means necessary, through adventures and lovers, to escape the tedium, monotony, and exasperation that has taken over her life.
The current edition, a recent translation by Mauro Armino, includes the fragments, discovered among Flaubert’s manuscripts, that the author decided at the last minute not to include in the novel. The volume is completed with an introductory study by Jacques Neefs of Johns Hopkins University and a Flaubertian chronology.
She was trying to find out, in life, what exactly was meant by the words ‘happiness’, ‘passion,’ and ‘intoxication,’ which had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
