Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
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Author: Gustave FlaubertIntroduction: Robin Morgan
Translator: Mildred Marmur
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN: 0451528204
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Reviews of Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
Book Review: Madame Bovary exemplifies the essence of XIX century realism
Summary: 5 Stars
Flaubert's Bovary is perpetual, pervasive. Through her
eyes, we see the world as it is: filled with universal
virtues and vices that lead to either happiness or self-
destruction. Madame Bovary captures the crystallized
essence of the human spirit: unpredictable and changing, yet
tangible and real. Her passions are those that move the
soul, but not the mind; she never considers,she simply
acts.
Beautiful and uncanny, Emma Bovary's view of the
world eventually becomes the harbinger of her own destiny,
one that she always fails to accept. But, her own actions
never deviate from reality; her character is the very re-
presentation of human life. Immersed into a world that
affects her own personality, Emma conquers a realism that
is always perceptible, that reflects the nature of her own
fortune. In effect, she becomes the product of Tolstoi's
Anna Karenina and Shakespeare's Juliet, for her own destiny
is controlled by passions that are never satisfied, never
fulfilled.
With Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert presents the strange
reality of life. He moves through her his own vision, his
own perception. In the process, he joins Dickens,Tolstoi,
and Dostoyevski, thus becoming not a writer, but a window
that enables us to see face to face what lies behind the
apparencies of life,a gateway that connects us with all
that moves us to and from our ambitions, our own desires.
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