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A review by teackojane
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4.0
“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”
“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always sleep.”
“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”
i read this as i’m on a journey to read all of the books referenced in donna tartt’s the secret history and you know it was a fine book. i really don’t think i would have picked this up on my own but i very much enjoy messy woman novels. before i had read this i read kate chopin’s the awakening which i enjoyed immensely so this was a bit of a let down compared to that novella. but i really did like this book and emma is such an interesting protagonist who is again, just a mess. the conflicting nature that she has with her wife role and the fact she didn’t have a choice in her marriage is interesting as we are usually following mr bovary.
“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always sleep.”
“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”
i read this as i’m on a journey to read all of the books referenced in donna tartt’s the secret history and you know it was a fine book. i really don’t think i would have picked this up on my own but i very much enjoy messy woman novels. before i had read this i read kate chopin’s the awakening which i enjoyed immensely so this was a bit of a let down compared to that novella. but i really did like this book and emma is such an interesting protagonist who is again, just a mess. the conflicting nature that she has with her wife role and the fact she didn’t have a choice in her marriage is interesting as we are usually following mr bovary.