Considerada una de las mejores obras ling#65533;#65533;sticas de la historia, es una de las novelas que dieron principio a la narrativa moderna. Gustave Flaubert nos muestra su punto de vista sobre la vida de la alta sociedad en la Francia de principios del siglo xix a trav#65533;s de Emma Bovary, mujer infelizmente casada, cuyos sue#65533;os chocan cruelmente con la realidad. El autor rompe con todas las convenciones morales y literarias de la burgues#65533;a de la #65533;poca, tal vez porque nadie antes se hab#65533;a atrevido a presentar un prototipo de hero#65533;na de ficci#65533;n tan rebelde y poco resignada al destino. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION As a provocative tale of passion and complacency, ideals and self-delusions, Madame Bovary remains a milestone in European fiction. In telling his story of Emma Bovary-a farmer's daughter who, with girlhood dreams fuelled by sensational novels, marries a provincial doctor-Flaubert inaugurated a literary mode that would be called Realism. So exacting were Flaubert's standards of authenticity that his portrayal of the breakdown of Emma's marriage, and the frankness with which he treats her adulterous liaisons, scandalized many of his contemporaries.