Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 297 |
| Year of Publication: | 1857 |
| Date Read: | 03/06/1996 |
| Notes: | Emma Bovary is a bored and unhappy middle-class wife whose general dissatisfaction with life leads her to act out her romantic fantasies and embark on an ultimately disastrous love affair. COMMENTS — Flaubert trained, for a time, to be a surgeon. This, perhaps, describes why he once described writing as, "the dissection of a beautiful woman with her guts in her face, her leg skinned, and half a burned-out cigar lying on her foot." |
| My Rating: | 6 |