LA SIGNORA BOVARY | I EDIZ. 1983 | GUSTAVE FLAUBERT | NATALIA GINZBURG

Madame Bovary is one of Flaubert’s masterpieces, a novel that portrays the inner life and tragic fate of Emma Bovary, a provincial woman longing for passion, luxury, and escape from an ordinary marriage. Through meticulous, detailed prose and a narrative voice blending irony and empathy, Flaubert exposes the constraints of bourgeois society, the emptiness of romantic illusions, and the despair that comes when life fails to match one’s fantasies. Natalia Ginzburg’s Italian translation brings out the subtle psychological depth, preserving the novel’s tonal precision—its shifts from mundane realism to poetic despair—and rendering with clarity the hypocrisies and disappointments that define Emma’s world, while allowing Ginzburg’s own sensitivity to shine through the syntax and choice of expression.