We could also mention the rejection of Madame Bovary by his contemporaries, who considered it an immoral novel, with a style that was too dry… Le Figaro wrote about Madame Bovary: "Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer!"

What happens when a philosopher, armed with good reading, finds herself caught in an abusive—yet ordinary—airport search? The result is a profound meditation on the voluntary servitude that accompanies modernity like its shadow…