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Madame Bovary (Classics Series)
Madame Bovary - Classics Series
Author: Gustave Flaubert
A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation. — Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award- winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true to the music of the original" (Los Angeles Times<...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670022076
ISBN-10: 0670022071
Publication Date: 9/23/2010
Pages: 384
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4.4 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 4
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No doubt a wonderful translation that to my mind must do the same thing for Flaubert that Pevear and Volokhonsky did for Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky. Lydia Davis's Introduction is also not to be missed, but perhaps unlike many if not most first-time readers of this novel, I knew little of the plot besides concerning an adulterous woman, and soon into the Introduction I discovered it was rife with "plot spoilers" I didn't want to know before reading the book. So for like minded readers, I would recommend reading the Introduction as an "Afterwards" after first reading the novel. A further advantage of this approach will be the discovery of how many unique and significant aspects of Flaubert's writing style and related events in the novel one may have noticed during reading that are discussed and revealed in this excellent Introduction, rather than having been tipped off beforehand. (I was pleased with what I had picked up, happy to learn more I hadn't.) For scholars and/or readers who have read previous translations and want to re-visit this work, I also highly recommend this Davis's along with her very insightful Introduction.


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