« En face avec une brutalité candide » : genèse de la première rencontre entre Charles et Emma dans Madame Bovary

Abstract

Flaubert's manuscript drafts of Madame Bovary concerning the first sight scene between Charles and Emma proved very valuable and illuminating because it allowed us to examine how this meeting arose in Flaubert's imagination and to what extent the writer operated through allusions, the symbolic representation of objects and the unsaid.

Keywords

• Madame Bovary
• first sight
• Flaubert
• manuscripts
• appearance