Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
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Author: Gustave FlaubertTranslator: Lowell Bair
Introduction: Leo Bersani
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1982-07-01
ISBN: 0553213415
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Reviews of Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
Book Review: "I am Bovary!"
Summary: 5 Stars
The above is a quote by Flaubert when asked how he conceptualized a woman so well. With such classic, I often wonder how to review them, a thousand minds, finer and baser than mine have written and spoken on them so I can only speak as a writer to what touches me.The form of finding a unisexual voice as a writer. My work was often praised for its' ability to transverse, transcend, or transform with simple intonation from male to female to female to male. I had yet to find many writers who I felt did so without a denegrating tone to the feminine or an absurdist to the masculine but when recommended Flaubert by Prof. Raymond Federman, a writer of esteem of experiemental literature, I had to jump in, no? Flaubert achieves the balance, the intonation of harmonious tones that make Bovary live. Her fall from grace, her collapse to infidelity out of spite, loneliness, boredom, isolation, sexual awakening is fraught with the peril of public scorn. Adultery these days is TV fodder, so commonplace that I wonder in mature relationships if one actually expects it. But Flaubert wisely chose to question it from the point of the guilty in a world where guilt was tantamont to self-destruction.
Bovary breathes as if written by a woman, though I feel such a statement is what undermines literature. Bovary breathes because she was written by a writer not obsessed with his gender or sexuality of even the societal mores that he was challenging. Again Flaubert should be read with a guide if a classroom setting is not available but it shouldnt be abandoned because of age or nationality. There is a sense that the romanticism attached to the conventional French image is being challenged here by burgeoning feminine sexuality. And at the same time I admire Flaubert for being a WRITER and not a gender in his craft.
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