Madame Bovary (Vintage Classics)
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.
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I didn't think much of the book after, but then a day or two later it really struck me. I really like how Madame Bovary is not just a tragic figure, not one to pity. She can be sympathetic, so lost and impacted by the world around her. Seen and unseen. Madame Bovary, c'est moi!
The drama! Let this be a lesson to all you ladies who read too many romance novels, indulge in the latest fashion trends, live beyond their means, and don’t attend to their feminine duties- lest they befall the same fate!
No but forreal, this holds up to modern trash dramas and I am lovin’ it
The book looks very simple, but it has a lot to say. it has a lot of symbols that at first you may not get it, but later you will understand. each of the characters other that being a human, resemble a trait or changes in our interaction with world. for example a blind beggar resembles ugly side of life and mirrors the psychological condition of Emma Bovary that exists but she did not like to see, or the seller that makes the Bovary family go on debt is very similar to the issue we all encounter in our modern life when we get a mortgage.
The book is trying to inform us that some times the reality of the life is not what you read in books or what you hear in the news.
Eh. Wild ride for sure. Like ms ma'am was veeery horny and unsatisfied in her marriage. She's so dramatic from start to the very finish, which like respect, but also ma'am chill
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