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Book Reviews of Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town

Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town
Madame Bovary Life in a Country Town
Author: Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur (Translator)
ISBN-13: 9780192833990
ISBN-10: 0192833995
Publication Date: 5/28/1998
Pages: 362
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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The only thing worse than reading Madame Bovary was reading Madame Bovary in French. She was an unsympathetic character who created her own misery and then sulked about it. Even such a character might not have been so bad if not for Flaubert's longwinded descriptions of small details that, while artful and all that wonderful nonsense, gave me no motivation to continue reading it. Had I not been required to read it, and write about it (in French - joy), I would not have finished it.