Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780140449129 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ffortsa on 3/15/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by ffortsa on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Flaubert's grand experiment writing about contemporary people and 'the banality of provincial life'.

Journal Entry 2 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Friday, March 25, 2011
THANK YOU!! For this book!!! :D

Journal Entry 3 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Thursday, November 17, 2011
While I really liked Gustave's writting style, I didn't like Madame Bovary as a character. She was spoilt and selfish.
I finished the story and just felt very sorry for Charles and Berthe.

Journal Entry 4 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Released 12 yrs ago (1/31/2012 UTC) at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand

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Given to Grandma to read.

Journal Entry 5 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Strange story, made me glad not to be living in those times. If you enjoy a different read, this is it. Grandma.

Journal Entry 6 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Strange story, made me glad not to be living in those times. If you enjoy a different read, this is it. Grandma.

Journal Entry 7 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Saturday, August 4, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (8/4/2012 UTC) at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand

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This RABCK is off to Sweden~!!

Journal Entry 8 by gunmarga at ---- by post or by hand ----, Skåne Sweden on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The book was in my mailbox today. Thank you Sfogs.

Backside: Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devouer of sentimantal 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 when real life continues to fail up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating.
Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'


Edit my opinion: Emma is always looking for confirmation. Her husband did not have any suspicion when Emma is with her lover. The man who loves her deeply only see her beauty .. Emma seems so spoiled and put themselves in debt without considering that bills must be paid at last. That everything eventually ends in sorrow is not strange.
I thought the novel was very readable. It describes so well the feelings of sadness that Emma had. It seems that Emma suffered from a depression as she tried to compensate by trying to get confirmation that she will do through her lovers and by buying things even though there is no money

Journal Entry 9 by gunmarga at Vårdcentralen, Råbyvägen 41 in Hörby, Skåne Sweden on Friday, September 11, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/11/2015 UTC) at Vårdcentralen, Råbyvägen 41 in Hörby, Skåne Sweden

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