I like to start a book knowing almost nothing about it. With Madame Bovary the only thing I knew was that it’s a French classic and often cited one of the all-time great novels. I knew absolutely nothing about the plot going in, though I expected it to be centered on the eponymous Madame Bovary, who...
First of all, even though this was written over 150 years ago, everything still comes across as incredibly current. You can pluck the characters from their 19th century existence and slot them into today with an ease that is a little scary. The book starts off with an introduction to Charles Bovary’...
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.
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 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...
I hadn't really intended to read this, I was just killing time waiting for my flight and it happened! Good thing it did. What a tale this one was. The name alone gave me no reason to get excited, but it's a wonderful, saucy story in which I felt sorry for her husband in the end. She's such a cow- an...
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