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michael_d_barnett 's review for:
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
I agree, it’s likely preposterous that I give this classic only 3 stars. It’s also perhaps only possible for me to do so at such a remove from its original publication. Still, the very reasons it was so revered are the same for which I’m able to be bored by it: so many lists and evocations of the mundane, long passages of descriptive text of the quotidian, sardonic portrayals of every average person in town, including the sharpest, most cutting study of the protagonist herself. In my modern world I have the luxury to be bored and vaguely irritated by all of it.