Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Reviews

Indulge me a moment while I relate a short tale. More years ago than I care to remember, when I was at school, we were assigned, in a French oral class, the task of working in pairs, one of us taking the part of a police officer and the other a witness, to converse in French, asking for and giving the description of a person spotted at the scene ...

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Emma Bovary is bored. She’s bored with her humdrum life; married to a boring and mediocre doctor she lives under the burden that people judge her only relative to her husband and she struggles to find her own identity. She fills her empty days reading ...

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 ...

I have just read the other reviews of Madame Bovary, and all expressed disbelief that such a borng, cliched book could be regarded as one of the greatest works of all time. But without wishing to get all pretentious about it, that is the whole point. First a word of warning. If you are looking for a good read, this is definitely not the ...

One of the most boring books I have ever read. I wanted to read this book at first because I had heard brilliant reviews. When I started I had to put it down and then picked it up a week later. It's basically about Madame Bovary's affairs and that is it. Madame Bovary wants fun as she is married to a boring doctor so she has ...

I read this book in both english and french as it was part of the syllabus when I did French A Level. Well its not that fascianting. I can imagine for its time it was a bit racy as it showed the downfall of a french woman who was in love with the idea of being in love and so although married pursued various affairs, got into debt etc etc, ...

On the face of it, this looks like being a really good read. The cover (I read the Oxford World's Classics edition) tells the reader how the book is a landmark of world literature; how it marked a great shift in French literature; etc, etc. So you set about it with high hopes. The book tells the story of Emma Bovary, a country ...