THE INFLUENCE OF MADAME BOVARY ON DUST OVER THE CITY
THE INFLUENCE OF MADAME BOVARY ON DUST OVER THE CITY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to look at the way the French novel by Flaubert has influenced the Canadian novel by Langevin. The paper is looking at influences of previous literature on Modern literature and explaining them using a literary and cultural analysis. The stories are similar; it is just that they are from different epochs and told differently. The influence of the French character Madame Bovary is visible on Madeleine, while her husband is a copy of Madame Bovary’s husband. Alain Dubois is a small doctor, as his wife Madeleine teases him. The same story, the same problems, the same ending. Can we talk about a rewriting of the same story? Of intertextuality? Of a universal love story that transcends time? Of a pattern for love stories that Flaubert has established? Of an item that has gained its place in the culture memory of literature?

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