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Gustave Flaubert

September 2023

  • Anne-Marie Duff as Lady Macbeth in the National Theatre’s 2018 production of Macbeth.

    The last word
    ‘You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself’: the best descriptions of ambition in literature

    The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on those who are determined to succeed this month, from Lady Macbeth to Flaubert’s privileged college boys

February 2023

  • Fizzing facts … Left to right: Giles Taylor as Turgenev, Bob Barrett as Flaubert, Norma Atallah as George Sand, Rosalind Lailey as Caroline Commanville and Peter Hannah as Zola in The Oyster Problem.

    The Oyster Problem review – the struggle to save Flaubert from himself

    In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly

November 2022

  • Pass the arsenic … Alistair Cope, Jennifer Kirby and Dennis Herdman in The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary!

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! review – Flaubert farce flops

    The cast’s hard work can’t save a confused script that struggles to mine comedy from a desperately sad story

October 2022

  • London Book Fair<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 10: Kit de Waal, author, attends the London Book Fair at Olympia London on April 10, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    The books of my life
    Kit de Waal: ‘Life is too short to finish books I don’t like’

    The writer on finding teenage inspiration in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Donald Sutherland’s reading of Hemingway and Sebastian Barry’s poetic prose

December 2019

  • Ralph Fiennes and Julianna Moore in Neil Jordan’s film of The End of the Affair (1999).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about adultery

    From Graham Greene’s anguished transgressions to Milan Kundera’s happy-go-lucky erotic adventures, fiction has long adored illicit affairs

December 2018

  • Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer in the 1991 film adaptation of Madame Bovary.

    Charles Bovary, Country Doctor by Jean Améry review – the most famous literary cuckold

    A timely critique and reimagining of Madame Bovary by a writer who finds Flaubert ‘filled with hatred’

October 2018

  • Madame Bovary<br>Picture Shows: Emma Bovary (FRANCES O'CONNOR). FRANCES O'CONNOR stars as the beautiful adultress Emma Bovary in a new BBC TWO adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's romantic tragedy, Madame Bovary. Seductive, passionate and socially ambitious, Emma stifled by her marriage to Charles (HUGH BONNEVILLE) throws herself into a desperate love affair with libertine aristocrat, Rodolphe (GREG WISE) and the seeds of her downfall are sown. TX: BBC TWO. Monday 10 April 2000, Tuesday 11 April 2000. WARNING: This copyright image may be used only to publicise current BBC programmes or other BBC output. Any other use whatsoever without specific prior approval from the BBC may result in legal action.

    Book of the day
    First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran review – how good writing makes sense of the world

    Love verbs and go easy with nouns, and end a sentence on a stressed syllable ... Thoughtful reflections on how to write

July 2018

  • Anna Karenina played by Keira Knightley.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which books will help to heal a broken heart?

    Out of love with romance? Our expert suggests novels to analyse the processes of love, regain perspective and make you laugh

April 2017

  • Marcel Proust<br>CIRCA 1896: Portrait of French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922) (Photo by: Roger Viollet/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

    Proust's complaint about neighbours' loud sex among treasures in French sale

    Letter from ‘jealous’ author, as well as another by Gustave Flaubert defending Madame Bovary will be sold from collection worth an estimated €3m

December 2016

  • Where Angels Fear to Tread

    Rereading
    Julian Barnes: I was wrong about EM Forster

    Put off by A Passage to India in his teens, the author has rediscovered a wry, sly and subversive writer

November 2016

  • Flaubert’s travel diary.

    Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert's travel diary among rare books at historic sale

    Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles

September 2016

  • Frances O’Connor as Madame Bovary in the BBC’s 2000 adaptation.

    Books blog
    Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary

    Flaubert’s anti-heroine, the original Desperate Housewife lost in the dreams of romantic fiction, was a scandal on publication and still challenges our morality

April 2016

  • David Bowie reading a book, in 1965.

    Why we read: authors and readers on the power of literature

    As World Book Day is celebrated around the world – and World Book Night in the UK – we look at great quotes from authors on why they like reading, as well as some from our own readers

February 2016

  • The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! at Liverpool Everyman Theatre, by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Peepolykus Image shows: Javier Marzan & Emma Fielding PR image sent from: D.Beaumont@everymanplayhouse.com

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! review – madcap Flaubert farce falls flat

    Flaubert’s dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter

December 2015

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    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about unfaithful wives

    From the class-crossing Constance Chatterley to Tolstoy’s enchanting Anna Karenina, here are 10 wives caught in flagrante delicto by their creators

November 2015

  • Pierre Bergé in his library

    The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold

    With Impressionists on their walls and priceless books on their shelves, Pierre Bergé and his former partner Yves Saint Laurent were the ultimate collectors. But now the art and YSL have gone, Bergé says it’s time ‘to attend the funeral’ of his £30m library

September 2015

  • Madame Bovary book and mug of cold chocolate illustration

    Breakfast of champions
    Breakfast of champions: Gustave Flaubert’s cold chocolate

  • Morrissey, author of a turkey.

    Forget Morrissey’s ‘bulbous salutation’, here are my good sex awards

    Flic Everett

August 2015

  • I knead you … Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton in Gemma Bovery.

    Gemma Bovery review – a sugary snack of a film

    Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton star in a watchable if contrived adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a French baker and his British neighbour

April 2015

  • There may be wrong turnings, but love will out … Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones with Hugh Grant as Daniel

    Is romantic fiction a dangerous passion?

    Happy endings may not be so reliable in real life, but stories where you know things will work out well cast a potent spell
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