Mrs. Bovary

“Mr. Bovary” by Gustaf Flober is a world master of psychological realism, which has made a revolution in the 19th century literature.This is a pronouncing and miserable story about the destructive power of unbeatable illusions, the search for passion and the tragic collision of romantic fantasies with grey reality. The main heroine, the young and romantic Emma Roo, grown up on sentimental love novels, marries the kind but boring provincial doctor Charles Bovary. The shortly measured town life and the absence of high senses dive Emma into a deep trouble. In a desperate attempt to get out of the prison of tiredness and live life as in favourite books, she seeks salvation in luxury purchases not through means and secret love relationships. However, passionate novels with useful rodolph and dirty leone only enhance the spiritual emptiness, and accumulated debts inevitably lead to a catastrophe. Flober with jewelry accuracy and subtle irony explores the phenomenon of “bowarism” – the tendency of man to replace reality with fictional ideals. “Mrs. Bovary” is an immortal novel about the price of illusions, human passions and the tragedy of the lonely soul in the world of small local interests. **About what the book in three words:** Illusions, Passion, Disaster. **Who to read:** Fans of unbeatable world classics, lovers of deep psychological dramas, lovers of perfect literary style and everyone who is attracted by honest stories of human errors and the search for the ideal.