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Florent Flaubert's first novel, Madame Bovary, became, without exaggeration, a masterpiece of psychological prose. It was a kind of challenge to the society of the time, its stale views and hypocritical morality . What was it that stirred up society, in particular the literary environment? And this always irritates the average person, who often lives by double standards and adheres to moral norms only ostensibly."

The main character of the novel, a romantic country girl, Emma Ruo, gradually turns from a respectable wife of a young doctor (with the help of hypocrites and opportunists around her) into a lustful, depraved and unprincipled person. She places only entertainment and pleasure in the first place. By irresponsibly squandering her husband's money, Emma leads her family to impoverishment and ruin. In the end, having reached a complete material and moral dead end, she commits suicide.

It would seem that this is not such a rare life story, but Flaubert, thanks to his virtuosity and poetic style, managed to give it an extraordinary drama and sensuality. That is why his work can be safely ranked among the peaks of world literature.