I'm reading Madame Bovary.
Just finished part one, it strikes me as having quite a similar premise to Eyes Wide Shut. doctor husband, wife who has trouble with bourgeois marriage, the ball scene. Similar themes too. Does anyone else find that? Do you think Kubrick was rewriting Madame Bovary for the 21st century?
>>8304440
cuckoldry is a bourgeois fantasy, this is why the middle class strives for it
You're probably trolling but Eyes Wide Shut is based on Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. I don't know how much influence Flaubert's work exerted on Schnitzler's writing. He might have adapted some elements of Madame Bovary, but I can't say how accurate this theory is.
>>8304457
Wasn't aware of this. ty