De l’onirique et du réalisme comme deux topiques adversatives au XIXème siècle: Le cas de Madame Bovary
Dream and Realism: Clashing Topics in 19th Century Literature: The Case of Madame Bovary

Summary/Abstract: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, a book swept by all the romantic “vague of passions” specific to novels of the first half of the 19th century, opened a rich space of investigation which critics have never ceased to explore: that of contemporary reality. Hence, the constant clash between dream and reality in this novel, due to the indiscriminate consumption of literature. One of the driving threads of this work is precisely the question of reading and its influence on real life. Without intending a sexual reading of the novel (similar to the novel reading practiced by theleading character Emma Bovary in Flaubert’s book), we would like to “denounce” as feminine the emotional reading of texts – that kind of reading that “lacks distance”, sticks to the narrated story, searches in the narrative for echoes from the reader’s life, and finishes by including the story into this very life.

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