A Simple Heart

An audio book “Simple Soul” is a work by a classic of French literature, one of the largest European writers of the 19th century, Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880). This small novella of the author of the famous novels “Madame Bovary” and “Sentimental Education” was created late in his life, in 1877. It is in “A Simple Soul” that the distinctiveness of Flaubert’s prose is most clearly displayed: using extremely concise means of description, striving for precision of language and style, the writer achieves проникнення into the very depths of human existence.

Before you is a sad story of the illiterate, ignorant peasant woman Félicité—a woman infinitely charming in her spiritual simplicity and naivety. All her life, despite endless hardships and misfortunes, Félicité continued to love, to give her love to others… All her life—tragic in its absurdity—she felt the need to direct her care and tenderness to someone…