Bovary, Flaubert, la seine-maritime fait parler le monde…

Il museo di Belle Arti di Rouen, in Francia, ha annunciato oggi il lancio di un sito web dedicato ai brogliacci e ai manoscritti di “Madame Bovary”, il celebre romanzo di Gustave Flaubert.

Pubblicato nel 1865 nella “Revue de Paris”, è uno dei romanzi francesi più letti al mondo, e la biblioteca municipale di Rouen, che possiede i manoscritti, ha voluto che ne potessero beneficiare “i visitatori del web così come gli specialisti”, ha detto Danielle Girard, responsbaile della digitializzazione del materiale. Si tratta di circa 4.500 fogli (brogliacci, riscritture da parte di copisti, manoscritti definitivi, correzioni) e altrettante pagine di testi ritrascritti. Circa 650 persone, tutte volontarie, di 12 diverse nazionalità, hanno partecipato alla trascrizione del testo originale, difficilmente leggibile. Tra di loro, una donna delle pulizie, un benzinaio, alcuni studenti. Il costo del progetto.

Drafts of “Madame Bovary”, Gustave Flaubert’s classic tale of adultery and thwarted dreams, are being shown online for the first time thanks to a mass effort to transcribe the originals.

Some 650 volunteers from all over the world, including teenagers, an oil worker and a cleaning lady, have transcribed thousands of often hardly legible hand-written manuscripts in a project overseen by a museum in Rouen in northwestern France. First serialised in the 19th century in “La Revue de Paris”, a literary journal, the story of Madame Bovary’s unhappy marriage, doomed love affairs and horrific suicide has gone on to become one of the most popular French novels. The municipal library of Rouen holds a vast collection of original manuscripts, drafts, early copies, corrections, annotations and re-writes that eventually converged in the novel. The decade-long project to prepare the writings for publication on the Internet cost 120,000 euros and was supported by the work of literature fans from 12 countries. The result can be seen at www.bovary.fr and is meant to appeal to specialists as well as amateurs. Even though Flaubert’s text was censored before publication, his portrayal of adultery as an attempt to escape from stifling small-town life was deemed so immoral that the author faced trial. He was acquitted, his novel was published in book form and became a bestseller.

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