After a chance meeting at the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, a man and a woman in this novel have (*) sex in a moving carriage.
A writer responds to Claude Duchet's claim that this novel has a "mania for duplication" by calling it the "added element" that lets fiction "compete with the real world". In another book, Enid Starkie's argument that this novel's writer forgot what color its protagonist's eyes were is rebuked by Geoffrey Braithwaite. After a chance meeting at the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, a man and a woman in this novel have (*) sex in a moving carriage. Berthe [bairt] is the daughter of a man in this novel who is driven out of business by the pharmacist Monsieur Homais [oh-may]. In this novel, Rodolphe and Leon have affairs with the wife of a country doctor named Charles. For 10 points, name this novel by Gustave Flaubert.
A writer responds to Claude Duchet's claim that this novel has a "mania for duplication" by calling it the "added element" that lets fiction "compete with the real world".
Madame Bovary (The leadin is from The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa) &lt;RY, LongFic&gt;