Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

The autumn's four books in the Albert Bonniers Klassiker series are very different in character and were written in different eras, but they all share a focus on women's circumstances. When our editorial team searches our archives for titles to feature in the series, male authors often dominate - in this autumn's release we wanted to highlight four truly strong texts that still resonate today about women who go their own way. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is the ultimate book about reading. The story of Emma Bovary's marriage, repeated infidelity, novel-reading, romantic dreams and final tragedy holds both the heaven and the hell of reading. Reading as escape, as dream, as a better version of reality. Flaubert's classic, which when it was first published in France in 1856 was prosecuted for obscenity but acquitted, is now released in a new translation by Anders Bodegård with a foreword by Sara Danius. For the 1970s-inspired form, designer Maija Louekari, who among other things has designed colorful