Pr�face, notes et dossiers par Jacques Neefs Une jeune femme romanesque qui s'�tait construit un monde romantiquement r�v� tente d'�chapper - dans un vertige grandissant - � l'ennui de sa province, la m�diocrit� de son mariage et la platitude de sa vie. Mais quand Flaubert publie Madame Bovary , en 1857, toute la nouveaut� du roman r�side dans le contraste entre un art si hautement accompli et la peinture d'un univers si ordinaire. L'�criture transfigure la vie, mais s'y adapte si �troitement qu ...
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Pr�face, notes et dossiers par Jacques Neefs Une jeune femme romanesque qui s'�tait construit un monde romantiquement r�v� tente d'�chapper - dans un vertige grandissant - � l'ennui de sa province, la m�diocrit� de son mariage et la platitude de sa vie. Mais quand Flaubert publie Madame Bovary , en 1857, toute la nouveaut� du roman r�side dans le contraste entre un art si hautement accompli et la peinture d'un univers si ordinaire. L'�criture transfigure la vie, mais s'y adapte si �troitement qu'elle la fait na�tre sous nos yeux. � Ce n'�tait plus du roman comme l'avaient fait les plus grands �, dira Maupassant: � C'�tait la vie elle-m�me apparue. On e�t dit que les personnages se dressaient sous les yeux en tournant les pages, que les paysages se d�roulaient avec leurs tristesses et leur gaiet�, leurs odeurs, leur charme, que les objets aussi surgissaient devant le lecteur � mesure que les �voquait une puissance invisible, cach�e on ne sait o�. �
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Unfortunately it was in French..did I miss that in the entry?? That was why I only gave it a 2.
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WilliamS
Feb 18, 2009
Unsympathetic antiheroine
This is one case in which the chief character does not change at the end of the novel. Though I cannot argue about Flaubert's prose, since I have not read Bovary in French, I will say that this is one of the few novels I've read which I would not read a second time. Emma seems completely selfish and ungrateful, even when people try to hep her. I only give it three stars because of its honorable place in the canon of great literature. To each his own, I guess.
bevans605
Jul 22, 2008
An Interesting Character Study
Flaubert's writing in Madame Bovary, as has been mentioned before, is slightly dry, but in my opinion it is the ideas that the novel conveys that make it so powerful. While many of us feel from time to time that our lives lack a certain excitement, Emma Bovary's thoughts are dominated by her overwhelming boredom with her husband and marriage throughout her life. I found her to be a slightly pitiable character in the beginning, but quickly her bratty nature lost much sympathy that I had for her. Nevertheless, Emma Bovary is an interesting character to study, especially due to her skewed system of values in which something is only as good as the emotional, passionate response it can evoke in her. Flaubert does paint some vivid images, most notably Emma's vision of God as she recieves Communion, but seems more concerned with painting the drabness of her life. Overall, I enjoyed Madame Bovary, but I had gotten the picture halfway through.
Ellyb
Mar 11, 2008
It has its ups and downs
Hmm, a great part of me agrees with the previous review. I struggled to maintain interest in the life of Emma Bovary, who seemed so vapid, so selfish, and so primitive. The prose is extremely dry (that may depend on the translation) and one sighs in annoyance over the cluelessness of her husband. However, at the core of it, Madame Bovary is about the desperate struggle to feel something besides boredom. Emma is trapped by convention and instead of laying back, resigned, she fights. Sure, she fights stupidly and selfishly, but her yearning for happiness resonates with a ring of truth and aroused a measure of empathy in me despite my misgivings. *Mild Spoiler alert* The tragedy of the story is that it is her act of self violence that results in the greatest height of emotion and greatest level of passion that Emma ever gets to know.
Renee
May 9, 2007
Madame Bovary is Flaubert?s story of a woman seeking love and interest outside her marriage. She continues in her illusion that she will find something better the next time around and simply falls into greater unhappiness and boredom. This book has nothing redemptive about it; no character is happy, there is no beauty in any of their relationships, and one becomes saturated with Madame Bovary?s boredom reading it.
