Madame Bovary Author: [French] Flaubert Translator: Li Jianwu Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is a master of French realist literature in the 19th century and an outstanding representative of French critical realist literature after Balzac and Stendhal. Madame Bovary is both Flaubert's masterpiece and his most important representative work. The author reproduces the social life of France in the mid-19th century through the experience of a passionate woman, Emma, ​​with concise writing and perfect style. It is recognized as the most important masterpiece of French literature in the 19th century after The Red and the Black and The Human Comedy; it is also considered to be the "code of the new art", a "most perfect novel" and "has had revolutionary consequences in the literary world".

Mr. Li Jianwu is a famous modern Chinese writer, playwright, translator, critic and literary researcher. He is a master in the fields of creation, criticism, translation and research. He is the first person in my country to systematically study and translate Flaubert. Madame Bovary has thus become Mr. Li Jianwu's most representative translation, a truly famous translation.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, is an outstanding representative of French critical realism literature after Balzac and Stendhal.