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A review by kfish3
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3.0
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - a Kindle book uploaded on February 16th, began reading on February 18th. I had heard it was a classic with an undercurrent of French intimacy and eroticism, so I said what the hey.
Madame Bovary begins by being about Mr Charles Bovary, his wheedling spinster widow first wife, and his impassioned young second wife. Off and on, the third-person narration looks out from the eyes of an all-seeing narrator, Charles' parents, Charles' own, and then the bulk of the book is seen through those of his second wife, Emma. It's very, very descriptive for a novel of this age and genre and includes some lesser-character Shakespeare-style witty banter, but, looking at the story in more modern terms, the second Mrs Bovary would be seen as being a child of nature and a romantic when they had gotten married, then turning bitter, beatific, Baby Jane, and emo with age. Charles Bovary, though upstanding and every-man, should've known she'd turn emo and stayed far away, whittling away his years as a bachelor doctor.
Madame Bovary begins by being about Mr Charles Bovary, his wheedling spinster widow first wife, and his impassioned young second wife. Off and on, the third-person narration looks out from the eyes of an all-seeing narrator, Charles' parents, Charles' own, and then the bulk of the book is seen through those of his second wife, Emma. It's very, very descriptive for a novel of this age and genre and includes some lesser-character Shakespeare-style witty banter, but, looking at the story in more modern terms, the second Mrs Bovary would be seen as being a child of nature and a romantic when they had gotten married, then turning bitter, beatific, Baby Jane, and emo with age. Charles Bovary, though upstanding and every-man, should've known she'd turn emo and stayed far away, whittling away his years as a bachelor doctor.