Gustave Flaubert
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| Original Title: | Madame Bovary |
| ISBN: | 0192840398 (ISBN13: 9780192840394) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Characters: | Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis |
| Setting: | Rouen,1850(France) Yonville-l'Abbaye,1850(France) Tostes,1850(France) |
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'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?' Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.' This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.List Epithetical Books Madame Bovary
| Title | : | Madame Bovary |
| Author | : | Gustave Flaubert |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford World's Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 329 pages |
| Published | : | 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published 1856) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Politics. Classics. War. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Before her marriage, she had believed that what she was experiencing was love; but since the happiness that should have resulted from that love had not come, she thought she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out just what was meant, in life, by the words bliss, passion, and intoxication, which had seemed so beautiful to her in books. Mia Wasikowska plays Madame Bovary in the 2015 movie.Before she is Madame Bovary, Emma is keeping house for her father on a remote farm. I wonderOh, Emma. Emma, Emma, Emma. Darling, why must you make it so easy ? No, dear, (for once) I dont mean for the men. I mean for everyone else in the world who goes into this book just looking for an excuse to make fun of you. I would say that most people dont know that much about France, but they do know a few things: that they like their baguettes, their socialism, Sartre, dirrrty dirrty sexy lurrrve and they despise this thing called the bourgeoisie. This book doesnt really do a thing to disprove
Theres something about Flauberts writing that makes me want to comment on his books as Im reading them. I had that experience with Bouvard et Pécuchet last year and I had it again while reading this book, so I jotted down my thoughts as I read.Part I jottings When youre reading such a famous story as this one, the ending of which everyone knows already, you read it differently. You dawdle along, indulging yourself with odd details. And so, in these early pages, Im admiring how Flaubert describes
Oh, Emma. Emma, Emma, Emma. Darling, why must you make it so easy ? No, dear, (for once) I dont mean for the men. I mean for everyone else in the world who goes into this book just looking for an excuse to make fun of you. I would say that most people dont know that much about France, but they do know a few things: that they like their baguettes, their socialism, Sartre, dirrrty dirrty sexy lurrrve and they despise this thing called the bourgeoisie. This book doesnt really do a thing to disprove
The first reading of this novel does no justice to its original intended effect. The book must be reread especially if it was first encountered when the readers life was still devoid of romance. Not until the second time around do the details linger, memorably, and the speedy plot that Part One promised is detained for the remaining Parts Two & Three which include photographically-intense colors and emotions felt (or, even not felt at all) by Emma Bovary. The plot is carefully-crafted; it is
Splendid, Accessible Prose in Lydia Davis' Translation of Madame Bovary Madame Bovary dreams of the romantic adventures of which she reads and stands out as possibly the most self-centered anti-heroine in the Western canon. Yet, it could be that some who haven't read it have no idea of the "ending" ending (which I won't give away here). If you haven't read this, I recommend this translation, in which Lydia Davis' prose is sublime, e.g.: Love, she believed, had to come, suddenly, with a great
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