I've re-read this book for doing a comparison with The White Sheik by Fellini in my school essay, so after studying it at school and analyzing it for what was necessary in the comparison it occured that surely the read has not been as intense as before. I had a memory of me reading it at 13 with a m...
Henry James wrote: “Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment.” (James, Henry (1914). Notes on Novelists. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. p. 80.) ...
This was a real page turner. The whole thing is quite stylized and if you come in expecting Jane Austen-type writing, you'll be disappointed. Though perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, I thought it was a fun, quick read. It kept me up past midnight several nights in a row, which is no small task.
I was enjoying this thoroughly but the last 50 or so pages really blew me away. I went into it not knowing the critical reaction(s) to the work through history, just that it was a Work of Classic Literature. Like many of those it is accessible and illuminating of its time, with a great balance of pe...
I was enjoying this thoroughly but the last 50 or so pages really blew me away. I went into it not knowing the critical reaction(s) to the work through history, just that it was a Work of Classic Literature. Like many of those it is accessible and illuminating of its time, with a great balance of pe...
Ho sentimenti contrastanti riguardo Madame Bovary. Quando l'ho letto non mi è piaciuto molto, perché Emma è esattamente il tipo di donna che non riesco proprio a sopportare: una donna che vive di sogni, si piange addosso, non fa davvero niente per la propria vita. Sì, lo so: la condizione femminile ...
My old rating was 2 stars, now I'm not how many I'd give. I like Flaubert's writing and Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot that I read right before it helped giving me some background & trivias. Those are fun to find in the book.I found the plot itself rather awkward in some places. How Charles' 1st w...
My 100th book this year is Madame Bovary :)My old rating was 2 stars, now I'm not how many I'd give. I like Flaubert's writing and Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot that I read right before it helped giving me some background & trivias. Those are fun to find in the book.I found the plot itself rather...
Blurb: When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she year...
I was assigned this in high school--and remember being decidedly unimpressed--bored. Well, I don't think I can blame that on the translation, I just think that there are some books you're incapable of appreciating, if not because you're too young, then maybe because you just haven't read enough. OK,...
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