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Searching for Emma: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19981001
Author:Anonymous
Searching for Emma: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary, by Dacia Maraini.
A not altogether interesting or enlightening take on Flaubert's masterpiece, Maraini's book does manage from time to time to unearth a gossipy gem or two concerning Flaubert's intensely frustrating relationship with Louise Colet, the real-life Emma. While many have tried (with greater success than Maraini) to negotiate the volatile waters of the Flaubert-Colet liaison, this book is perhaps the first to propose the eyebrow-raising possibility that what attracted Flaubert most to Colet was her androgynous beauty. And ...
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