History, Documentary, TV Movie | 15 September 2021

Natalia Dontcheva, Jacques Rancière, Karl Ove Knausgård

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.