Madame Bovary

American  

[boh-vuh-ree] / ˈboʊ və ri /

noun

1. a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.

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Madame Bovary Cultural  

1. A novel by Gustave Flaubert. The title character, dissatisfied with her marriage, seeks happiness in adultery and finally commits suicide.

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Example Sentences

He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

In Madame Bovary, another French novelist, Gustave Flaubert, wrote of a rural doctor’s young wife whose desire for consumer goods and urban pleasures leads to her ruin.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Tragic figures like Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina come to mind, but so do William Wegman’s Weimaraners.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021

“I thought, I want to write that story. I will bring him to Ireland, where a sort of embryonic Madame Bovary has a shop with French corsets and . . . and falls in love.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

I’m reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García