Madame Bovary
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What’s it about?
A provincial doctor's wife, fed on romantic novels, chases ecstasy through affairs and debt, only to find that the gap between fantasy and reality is a poison that destroys everything.
You’ll learn
- Fantasy can be more dangerous than reality
- Desire without direction leads to ruin
- Love is not a cure for emptiness
- Small lives hold their own tragedies