His debut novel Madame Bovary, originally serialized in the French literary magazine La Revue de Paris in late 1856, established Flaubert as a master of French realism. Read on to learn more about ...

Madame Bovary had no precursors ... The fulsome descriptions of food and clothing at the Bovary wedding, or the hotel room in Rouen where her trysts with Léon take place, reflect to perfection ...

Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. When Viking asked Lydia Davis to translate Madame Bovary, back in 2006, she said no. She had recently finished the massive job of ...

French director Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery is a comic reworking of Madame Bovary, but that's merely ... have some fun with the way food has replaced the arts as the educated class' preoccupation.