what a waste of time (Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert)

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Product:	Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Date:	08/10/01 (57 review reads)
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Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. His father, a head surgeon is a hard-working and intelligent man but authoritative and ambitious man; his mother, morose, will be for Flaubert, after the death of his father a support and a refuge.
He passes a rather unhappy childhood in the frozen atmosphere of the hospital; he feels himself passive, unstable, different, and takes refuge at the same time in the literature and derision. He was considered as a young crazy and insane person.

#Daughter of a rich farmer, Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary, officer of health and recent widower of a tyrannical woman.
#Raised in a convent, Emma aspires to live in the world of dream. World of dream described in the mawkish novels she reads.
#A ball in the castle of Vaubyessard persuades her that such a world exists, but the transition she discovers with her own life starts up a nervous disease.
#Her husband then decides to settle in another village, famous agricultural place.
#There, she becomes acquainted with the local personalities, Homais, ambitious pharmacist and atheist, the Bournisien priest, Leon Dupuis, clerk and Rodolphe Boulanger, countryman.
#The birth of a girl distracts her a little, but soon Emma falls for Rodolphe. She wants to run away with her lover who behaving like a bastard abandons her.
#Emma thinks she just can’t live without this ashamed feeling of being left on her own and goes through initially a crisis of mysticism.
#Later in the book, she bumps into Leon, back from Paris. She very quickly becomes her mistress.
#Well settled in her love affair, Emma Bovary invents lies to be able to see again Leon, and spends significant sums, which she borrows from a too obligeant merchant, Lheureux.
#One day, this one asks to be refunded. Emma, by fear of the judgement soon being pronounced against her, tries at first to borrow money from
Leon, then from Rodolphe.
#Both refuse promptly, and Emma poisons herself with the arsenic concealed in the pharmacist shop.

Well what else to say that this book didn’t get much of my attention. I was tremendously bored during the whole reading. I don’t know I just didn’t feel at all being dragged down in the story. Page after page I slowly was loosing interest. Even sometimes I had to re-read more than twice the same passage. >>>>Flaubert is just not my cup of tea.<<<<

His style is bland and goes in length. The story however is average but I am afraid I have to give a 2 star only. 2 because of the main character, she is a unique lady and I got touched by her genuine behaviour. Hum, maybe not genuine rather stupid because her naïve perception of life makes her believe what she reads. This is where I want to finish this op about the domain of imaginary turning its back to reality. Those novels captivate Madame Bovary and she gets lost into a prism of images, diverting her from the reality. Let’s see it as a way to get comforted in life.

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