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On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
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Natalia Dontcheva | Self - Narrator (voice) |
Vincent Sacripanti | Self - Narrator (voice) |
Tiago Gomes Rodrigues | Self - Playwright |
Catherine Millet | Self - Writer |
Jacques Rancière | Self - Philosopher |
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literaturetrialcensorship19th centuryclassic literatureportrait of an artistsocial scandalbook writingfrench writercontroversial bookliterature history