Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

From Wiki: Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously a perfectionist about his writing and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the right word").

My Review: okey, so it's been a long time since I´ve reviewed good books, but I had to make an exception for this one!

This book was once censured and it is said that it is one of the best books ever written. It's really impressive all the attention that Flaubert gave to his choosing of words... Emma gives a slight remembrance to Marie Antoniette... because she used clothes and expensive things to feel good about her life. The book also gives an existensialist feeling because the main characters has an apparently happy life but always feels a need for something else. She always tires herself of what she has, like lovers, clothes, her husband, her child, her house, and her town. She's always desiring for something new and eventually this leaves to her demise. It's like a tragedy but it also mockes the attitude of certain people and the way of thinking at the time. So it turns into a satire.

In short, this novel is such a mystery and I'll probably read it again and find something new inside it.