Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics) Summary and Reviews

Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
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Author: Gustave Flaubert
Introduction: 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

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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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