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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gustave Flaubert

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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating.

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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Summary

Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gustave Flaubert

A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Reviews

National Bestseller
Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize
One of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year
A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year
One of National Public Radio's Favorite Books of the Year

Lydia Davis's Madame Bovary translation=perfect. She somehow pulls off a respectful translation with the readability of a contemporary novel. -@lenadunham

[Flaubert's] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves. -Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review

Invigorating . . . [Davis] has a finer ear for the natural cadences of English, in narrative and dialogue, than any of her predecessors. -Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of Books

Dazzling . . . translated to perfect pitch . . . [Davis has] left us the richer with this translation. . . . I'd certainly say it is necessary to have hers. -Jacki Lyden, NPR.org, Favorite Books of the Year

One of the most important books of the year . . . Flaubert's strict, elegant, rhythmic sentences come alive in Davis's English. -James Wood, The New Yorker's Book Bench

I liked having a chance to find more nuances in Madame Bovary in the new Lydia Davis translation and read it blissfully as though floating, as Flaubert puts it in a different context, 'in a river of milk.' -Paul Theroux, The Guardian (London), Books of the Year

Madame Bovary reads like it was written yesterday. . . . Emma, with her visions of a grander life and resplendent passions, is me . . . and you, too, no doubt. . . . If you haven't happened to read Madame Bovary until now, I suggest you curl up with this edition . . . and allow yourself to get lost in another time and place that yet bears a curious resemblance to our own. -Daphne Merkin, Elle

Davis is the best fiction writer ever to translate the novel. . . . [Her] work shares the Flaubertian virtues of compression, irony and an extreme sense of control. -Julian Barnes, London Review of Books

A brilliant new translation. -Lee Siegel, The New York Observer

I'm grateful to Davis for luring me back to Madame Bovary and for giving us a version which strikes me as elegant and alive. -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

Flaubert's obsessive masterpiece finally gets the obsessive translation it deserves. -New York magazine

About Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for immorality; Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pecuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and several collections of short fiction. She is also the translator of numerous works from the French by, among others, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Leiris, and was recently named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. She received great acclaim for her translation of Proust's The Way by Swann's for Penguin Classics and her Collected Stories have just been published by Hamish Hamilton.

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CIN014310649XVG
9780143106494
014310649X
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20120405
384
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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