"Madame Bovary" est un roman embl�matique �crit par Gustave Flaubert, l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt�rature fran�aise du XIXe si�cle. Publi� pour la premi�re fois en 1857, ce roman est consid�r� comme l'un des pr�curseurs du r�alisme litt�raire. L'histoire se concentre sur Emma Bovary, une femme insatisfaite de sa vie provinciale, qui cherche � �chapper � la monotonie de sa vie en qu�te de passion et de romantisme. Elle se lance dans des liaisons romantiques et r�ve d'une existence plus ...
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"Madame Bovary" est un roman embl�matique �crit par Gustave Flaubert, l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt�rature fran�aise du XIXe si�cle. Publi� pour la premi�re fois en 1857, ce roman est consid�r� comme l'un des pr�curseurs du r�alisme litt�raire. L'histoire se concentre sur Emma Bovary, une femme insatisfaite de sa vie provinciale, qui cherche � �chapper � la monotonie de sa vie en qu�te de passion et de romantisme. Elle se lance dans des liaisons romantiques et r�ve d'une existence plus excitante, mais finit par sombrer dans la d�sillusion et la trag�die. "Madame Bovary" est salu�e pour sa prose exquise, ses descriptions d�taill�es et son exploration profonde de la psychologie des personnages. Flaubert y aborde des th�mes tels que l'ennui, l'illusion de la passion, la d�sillusion et les cons�quences de l'irr�alisme dans la vie quotidienne. Ce roman est consid�r� comme une oeuvre majeure de la litt�rature mondiale pour sa repr�sentation r�aliste et complexe des d�sirs humains et de l'ali�nation sociale.
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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.
Service was excellent for delivery.
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.