Adultère, arsenic ou crème à la vanille?: Écrire le scandale dans Madame Bovary

A study of the phenomenon of textual proliferation and perversion surrounding the inscription of scandal in Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Linked to its etymological root, scandal acts as a snare or stumbling block that provokes a series of sexual, economic and textual "faux-pas," according to an inescapable logic of contamination. From plot to trial, the scandal of adultery radiates from Emma and threatens to subvert any representation of it. The trial stages the undoing of the novel's textual strategy: Emma's scandalous body, buried within the layers of the fiction, returns to bring down the author who had plotted her "fall." (In French) (NBR)