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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
This was somehow both boring and entertaining at the same time? I think I liked it?
So we have the classic tale of young, hot wife who is bored by her lame, older husband and seeks excitement somewhere else (usually in the form of an affair). Arguably, Flaubert canonized the genre with Madam Bovary.
So.... Emma Bovary. Is it weird that she made me think of Kim Kardashian? Specifically of that clip when she lost one of her diamond earrings while swimming in the ocean. Yeah it sucks that she lost her earring but to quote her sister Kourtney, “Kim, there’s people that are dying.”
ANYWAY, what Emma Bovary needs (and what she never got) is some perspective. Yes, her husband is boring and she’s unfulfilled, but people are dying Emma! She is so vapid, so empty I could not stand her. I kept waiting for her ‘Come to Jesus’ moment, but Flaubert kept her selfish to the bitter end. I read all those pages for a payoff like that. That’s the French for you.
So we have the classic tale of young, hot wife who is bored by her lame, older husband and seeks excitement somewhere else (usually in the form of an affair). Arguably, Flaubert canonized the genre with Madam Bovary.
So.... Emma Bovary. Is it weird that she made me think of Kim Kardashian? Specifically of that clip when she lost one of her diamond earrings while swimming in the ocean. Yeah it sucks that she lost her earring but to quote her sister Kourtney, “Kim, there’s people that are dying.”
ANYWAY, what Emma Bovary needs (and what she never got) is some perspective. Yes, her husband is boring and she’s unfulfilled, but people are dying Emma! She is so vapid, so empty I could not stand her. I kept waiting for her ‘Come to Jesus’ moment, but Flaubert kept her selfish to the bitter end. I read all those pages for a payoff like that. That’s the French for you.