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Gustave Flaubert's (1821-1880) novel “Madame Bovary” marked a new era in the literary life of France and was a sensational success. Using the example of Emma Bovary's personal drama, the author vividly showed the life of the bourgeois province of France, the tragic incompatibility of the pure dreams of an ordinary person about happiness with the very foundations of society. Emma's ideals and aspirations do not stand out among others, in some ways they are even naive, but Flaubert endowed her with dissatisfaction with the world around her, mental restlessness, and a desire for another life - the traits he valued most in a person. It is no coincidence that after the publication of the novel Flaubert declared: “Emma is me!&rdquo. The novel caused a serious public outcry, and discussions around it continue to this day.