"Madame Bovary" is a great novel by the French writer Gustave Flaubert. The main character, Emma Bovary, suffers from the inability to fulfill her dreams of a brilliant, secular life full of romantic passions. Instead, she is forced to eke out the monotonous existence of the wife of a poor provincial doctor. The painful atmosphere of the outback strangles Emma, but all her attempts to escape beyond the bounds of a gloomy world are doomed to failure: a boring husband cannot satisfy his wife's requests, and her outwardly romantic and attractive lovers are actually egocentric and cruel. Is there a way out of life’s impasse?..
