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Point of view around among them, nearly seamlessly. Novel-how Flaubert gets into the heads of his characters, yet moving the Literary folks like to point to the psychological aspects of the Other lives and multiple levels of tragedy, though not necessarilyįlaubert's undiscriminating critique poking into all aspects of social

Science-are themselves just as misguided and self-absorbed. That the other characters-paragons of earnestness, industry, faith and Ridiculous, that her unrealistic yearnings inspired by romantic literatureĪlso have their nobility, that we are sympathetic to her misery. One notices in later readings that Emma Bovary is not entirely With the other hand hurries the audience on to the next spectacle.

Mentions, that exposes with a subtle wave of the magician's hand and then Main narrative, that mentions and directs attention away from the Understated style that implies much for those looking beyond the vivid Seemingly new and surprising observations, insights and even characters It is one of a few novels that repays rereading with Tells a tale that can be summarized simply, also tells a much wider story In the third and most important place, Madame Bovary, though it It's because it set the standard for modern psychological novels.

If Madameīovary seems like a standard modern psychological novel to us now, Writing has been copied by virtually all writers who came after. In the second place, what Madame Bovary introduced into novel His work until every French word, sentence and punctuation mark is the one Most fastidious of stylists, constantly revising the smallest details of Of all writers, Flaubert is supposed to have been the But even the best would be hard-pressed toĭo justice to Gustave Flaubert's French prose, if we are to believe theįrancophone critics. In the first place, we're reading translations of which there are many-some very good and some not so. How is it possible, this disconnect between professional opinion and our everyday response? Nicely written but not striking in originality. Somewhat small story, a pathetic tale of a provincial woman stuck with silly romantic dreams that bring her ruin. Yet, Madame Bovary on first reading may strike the modern reader in English as, well, all right but hardly the best. And most consider it the most influential. Some critics and writers consider it the greatest novel ever.