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tophat8855 's review for:
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Ah, the classic novel that sets the standard for all modern novels and also serves as a warning against women reading novels!
I listened to it as an audiobook on Hoopla. The reader for it, Simon Vance, was pretty good.
I'm glad to have read it and I do see how it, as a realist novel, launched the modern storytelling we know of novels now.
Published in 1857, it was surprising to me how much atheism was a part of the book, just a few decades after the Second Great Awakening in the US, but this was in France and maybe this was a backlash to that movement-. I don't know enough about that. It just found it a little funny because I was not expecting that- it felt anachronistic from my knowledge about the era, but that probably tells you more about my shortcomings in knowledge!
It also seems like a silly book and I think you're supposed to feel that way about Emma- she's silly and wants to be always in love and surrounded by pretty things and that is her ruin. It's a cautionary tale- it ruins her, her husband, and eventually her daughter. Literally a textbook tragedy. Classic anti-romance tale. Ha!
I listened to it as an audiobook on Hoopla. The reader for it, Simon Vance, was pretty good.
I'm glad to have read it and I do see how it, as a realist novel, launched the modern storytelling we know of novels now.
Published in 1857, it was surprising to me how much atheism was a part of the book, just a few decades after the Second Great Awakening in the US, but this was in France and maybe this was a backlash to that movement-. I don't know enough about that. It just found it a little funny because I was not expecting that- it felt anachronistic from my knowledge about the era, but that probably tells you more about my shortcomings in knowledge!
It also seems like a silly book and I think you're supposed to feel that way about Emma- she's silly and wants to be always in love and surrounded by pretty things and that is her ruin. It's a cautionary tale- it ruins her, her husband, and eventually her daughter. Literally a textbook tragedy. Classic anti-romance tale. Ha!