Abstract EN:

This thesis examines the evidence for the reception of Madame Bovary in Portugal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Multi-faceted influences, ranging from the encyclopaedic dictionary to the manual of literature, from the simple newspaper article to the university thesis, from the literal to the literary translation, and from the effects on theme to the effects on style, make up the record of a masterpiece's fortune. In Part One, a more or less exhaustive census of newspaper and university criticism, written for the press or in essay form, from the period in question through the twentieth century, helps to clarify the phenomenon of the book's reception. A questionaire concerning the book, to which more than two dozen readers responded, permitted, for its part, a demonstration of some variables in the degree of familiarity not only with Flaubert's narrative but also with its importance in the history of Portuguese literature. In Part Two, a comparison and contrastive analysis of (re)translations of Madame Bovary emphasises not only the linguistic and stylistic but also socio-linguistic aspects, associated with the problematic of the translated book. . .