A review by emlntz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

2.0

This was simply...tedious. I can appreciate that as a product of this time this was a refreshing and different female protagonist, though in no way likeable (so perhaps... indirectly an authentically contemptuous portrait of a woman?) Some of the prose was beautiful, even in the English translation. But my God, it dragged and I didn't love the multiple page descriptions of things that had so little relevance to the plot. Sad to say, not what I was expecting from a book so lauded as one of the best of all time.