" It has been said that in Emma Bovary, Flaubert liquidated his early enchantment with romanticism, which we can still see in the writings of his adolescence. The word “Bovarysme” became an idée fixe: it characterizes those who, like the pitiful morons Bouvard and Pécuchet, dare to overstep a boundary fatalité has set before them and inevitably wander off into regions they find—they find!—impassible. "

― Jean Améry , Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: A Portrait of a Simple Man