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But affection and affectation don't sit well together." - Clive James, The Atlantic (.) No doubt this new translation of Madame Bovary is a labor of love. Other comparably great and famous novels aren't, but it is. "The first thing to say about Madame Bovary is that it's a terrific story."As for the intimate, deeper center of the book, there is no doubt that it resides in the adulterous woman she alone possesses all the attributes of a worthy hero, albeit in the guise of a disgraced victim." - Charles Baudelaire, L'artiste.Madame Bovary has been filmed numerous times, most famously by Jean Renoir (1933, with Valentine Tessier as Emma and Pierre Renoir as Charles), Vincente Minnelli (1949, with Jennifer Jones, James Mason, and Louis Jourdan), and Claude Chabrol (1991, with Isabelle Huppert)Ī- : remarkable character study, impressive writing.The quotes in our review are taken from the previous Penguin Classics translation, by Alan Russell. The English-language links above are for the Penguin Classics translation by Geoffrey Wall (and with a preface by Michele Roberts) - but numerous others are available.

Please note that Madame Bovary has been translated into English numerous times.

General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author It all ends, as it must, in tragedy and death – her fire so raging it burns her and everyone else.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. As soon as they marry, she Vesuviuses into an affair-having, debt-mongering passionate Wooooman. One of Charles Bovary's first encounters, where curacao dribbles down Emma's chin in the foetid stale heat of the kitchen, still sends spasms of erotic delight. A well-meaning, but bland and parochial, village doctor falls in love with a sizzling hottie from the next village, the well-brought-up daughter of a farmer. I can still feel the gooseflesh of my first reading. I didn't speak French, wasn't studying it, but, et alors, Flaubert (pictured, right) is the master: the writer of the first great modern novel the author of Madame Bovary.

It pleased me in a 19th-century way that "French authors were forbidden". However, stuck in slow recovery from my adolescence and being told certain things were "off-limits", I suddenly desired only those. Ladlefuls of Tolstoy, Gogol and Dostoevsky dribbled down my chav parvenu chin. After sneaking onto a literature degree via a comprehensive, I found myself nonplussed by the rules and exclusions.Īuthors from the English-speaking canon were permitted for my relish.