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Paysages de la solitude féminine : Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant

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The paper analyses three cases of feminine solitude as depicted in three novels belonging to the Realist and Naturalist movement. Flaubert’s Emma Bovary considers herself superior to the others who neither understand her nor see who she really is, and thus suffers during all her life and finally commits suicide. Zola’s Hélène Grandjean (One Page of Love) is not aware of the falseness of her life mode of an honest widow incapable of having a passionate love affair, and this unawareness costs her the life of her child. Maupassant’s Christiane Andermatt (Mont-Oriol), an aristocrat married to a Jewish banker in order to repair the family’s fortune, has an affair with a lady-killer who abandons her while she gets pregnant. In the three stories, the landscape is shown as strongly connected with the characters’ emotions.