Music in fiction : Emma Bovary, opera beholder

Abstract

This study focuses on the literary description of music. In the 15th chapter of
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the Bovarys go to the opera house in Rouen to
listen to Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor. At first sight, the text presents a This study focuses on the literary description of music. In the 15th chapter of
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the Bovarys go to the opera house in Rouen to
listen to Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor. At first sight, the text presents a