THE CONCEPT OF SPACE IN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT'S NOVEL MADAME BOVARY
THE CONCEPT OF SPACE IN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT'S NOVEL MADAME BOVARY

Summary/Abstract: This work aims to treat the concept of space in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, under all its aspects. The textual units will be analysed through a process of distant reading in order to reach those forms, reports and patterns imperceptible in the case of a close reading, in an attempt to find another form of knowledge that reveals new reports or ideas. The space in which Emma Bovary carries out her existence exemplifies Edward Soja's concept of spatial justice in the most plausible way. This immutable limit will make the character be in a permanent search for that locus amoenus which, once found, turns into a locus horribilis. Analysed from the perspective of heterotopic spaces, the places where Emma stays or just transits leave their mark on her personality, destabilize and make her vulnerable.

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