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| AUTHOR: | Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Penguin Books |
| ISBN: | 0140449124 |
| TYPE: | Classics, Fiction, French Novel And Short Story, Literary, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literature: Classics, 19th century fiction, Classic fiction, French |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Madame Bovary
An unpleasant look at ourselves Read it for the literary classic that it has become, but even more than that towards our own reflection: deception paired to blind love...unexpected reversals of fortune...unrequited affections...longing without direction...self-recrimination, salvation, destruction. The parallels to the non-fictional world are endless. We experience or are directly affected by them in one form or another throughout our lives.
Emma, the faithless wife, who retreats to the security of home and family whenever her infidelities turn against her, finally turning against herself. Bovary, the trusting husband, who even after full disclosure of Emma's adultery remains loyal to her memory, to die clutching locks of her hair. Berthe, their innocent child, whose life becomes misfortune because of them both. And loved ones left to grieve over their foolishness.
Flaubert hit it dead on.
Actually 4.5--The Essential Tale of Adultery
I began reading Madame Bovary just days after reading Anna Karenina because I read in the introduction of Anna that Tolstoy modeled his novel after Flaubert's. I figured if Leo Tolstoy liked it must be great.
Turns out Count Tolstoy was pretty hung up on the rights of women issue that was beginning to surface across Europe at the time. Back then women thought it unusual yet tempting that they should actually fall in love and marry for happiness when arranged/financially convenient marriages were the norm. In such an atmosphere, a character like Emma Bovary was not so much despicable as she was confused and filled with idealism. This novel might work now, but with women now being free to choose the mate of their choice, Emma's situation is difficult to grasp. I was mad at Emma for treating Charles like a doormat and being so vain. But then again, her life was pretty boring.
Flaubert tells a straight story without moralizing. He leaves that to the reader. VERY thought provoking novel. Read it with Anna Karenina because Tolstoy pretty much wrote the same novel from the aristocratic point of view. I like the contrast between the Bovary and Homais families. And the comic part of the book was Charles' medical expertise.
A Morality Tale About Marriage and Infidelity
What happens when a woman feels trapped in a boring marriage to a provincial doctor? In this tale of adultery, an amoral woman (Emma) seeking a way out of her dull existence takes a young lover (Rodolphe), and spends a lot of money which she doesn't have. Her lover eventually leaves her, and when he says he doesn't have the money to pay off her debts, in a desperate suicidal fit she stuffs her mouth with the powdery white arsenic that kills her.
David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"