Madame Bovary

Escrito por Gustave Flaubert

Narrado por Full Cast

Madame Bovary
de Gustavo Flaubert

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro en español de una de las obras más controversiales e importantes de la literatura universal, Madame Bovary de Gustavo Flaubert, quién fue llevado a juicio, acusado de inmoralidad, al lanzarse este libro.

Emma Bovary es una hermosa y ambicionada mujer, quién esta aburrida de su matrimonio con un medico, quien no le llena sus fantasías, ni aspiraciones sociales. En ese tiempo Emma conoce a Rodolfo Boulanger, un rico hacendado, quién se convierte en su amante. Emma propone a Rodolfo huir a París, pero él no acepta y la abandona. Posteriormente tiene un romance con un asistente legal; Todo esto la lleva a generar unos gastos que no puede soportar. Su esposo no sabe nada de sus aventuras amorosas, ni del derroche y caprichos de Emma que le han llevado a la bancarrota. Descubra en este audiolibro el desenlace inesperado de una de las más famosas novelas de la literatura universal.

FonoLibro trae una magnífica producción dramatizada con un elenco completo, maravillosa música y efectos de sonido que dan vida a la controversial historia de Madame Bovary.

"Si uno le preguntara al El Mundo cual es la mejor novela jamás escrita, El Mundo inmediatamente contestaría Madame Bovary" (Washington Post's Book World)

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Fonolibro Audiobooks
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 15 jun 2007
• ISBN: 9781611541366

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. He initially studied to become a lawyer, but gave it up after a bout of ill-health, and devoted himself to writing. After travelling extensively, and working on many unpublished projects, he completed Madame Bovary in 1856. This was published to great scandal and acclaim, and Flaubert became a celebrated literary figure. His reputation was cemented with Salammbô (1862) and Sentimental Education (1869). He died in 1880, probably of a stroke, leaving his last work, Bouvard et Pécuchet, unfinished.

Comentarios para Madame Bovary

[Lea AG · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

Parecía una radionovela… no me gustó…prefiero el libro leído; deberían de advertir antes como es…

[Natalia A. Pllt · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

No es la versión original. Es una versión recortada y dramatizada, con actores exagerados y malos. Deberían especificar qué no se trata de la obra original, si no de una adaptación. De lo peor en Scribd.

[academic person · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Esta muy exagerada la narración, por eso le doy cuatro estrellas. Lo demás está bien.

[tess_schoolmarm · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Madame Bovary was a slog and a bore. It is the ageless, timeless story of a woman who is seeking fulfillment in "love." She has romanticized love and will never be happy. Emma tries multiple affairs and spending large amounts of money to make her happy, but no cigar. This was scandalous when it came out in 1856 but would be mild today. Since the story line was blase I looked for great prose; but found little. 384 pages 2 1/2 stars

[Sandra Ponce · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I loved it!! Amazing & interesting book! The music was perfect accord with the different scenes

[Denise Aguilar Huezo · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Si La Rosa de Guadalupe hiciera un audiolibro sería este.

[Cinthia Salado Vega · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

No me encanto el libro parece novela de Televisa. Lo siento y las voces no son la mejor elección

[tess_w · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Madame Bovary was a slog and a bore. It is the ageless, timeless story of a woman who is seeking fulfillment in "love." She has romanticized love and will never be happy. Emma tries multiple affairs and spending large amounts of money to make her happy, but no cigar. This was scandalous when it came out in 1856 but would be mild today. Since the story line was blase I looked for great prose; but found little. 384 pages 2 1/2 stars

[stomps_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Yes, I know this book is a classic. But boy, was it a depressing book--not at all what I wanted to be reading while backpacking! I only ended up reading it because it was one of the few non-German books in the hostel book exchange, and I found that I almost had to force myself to plow onwards. Yes, it was well-written, and yes, Flaubert did a very good job of creating characters that I could not bring myself to care about at all.

[cbl_tn · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

In 19th century France, a bored doctor’s wife has affairs with two men, and in the process, she runs up debts she can’t repay. I was as bored as Emma at some points in the book. I had little sympathy for her because her troubles were largely of her own making. I did feel sorry for her naïve husband, and really sorry for the daughter whom both parents largely neglected. Simon Vance’s outstanding narration made the story more interesting than I otherwise would have found it.

[ghost_boy-691444 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I really liked this book a lot more than I thought I would, but be warned this gets graphic and really depressing at the end. Don't read this book expecting something uplifting or to positive moral at the end either. This is literary realism. Bad stuff happens and then life moves on to the next event. Also, this review is going to have a spoiler to the ending, but figured either most people know the ending already or I thought it would be helpful to know the ending before you read the book expecting something different.

Overall this is a story about an unhappy woman named Emma Bovary. She is married to a doctor and has a daughter. However, she wants more. She wants more money and she wants to travel to exotic places. She meets two other men in her life and has an affair with both of them. She finds her life boring, her husband is boring, and she doesn't seem to think anything of her daughter. As the the book comes to an end, she decided to take life in her own hands by drinking arsenic. Her husband is in grief throughout his life and the daughter is too young to know what happened.

I really liked this book even though as I write this review it left me feeling a little depressed (that will change when I move on to something else though). For something written in 1856, I thought it was progressive. I've read my far share of Victoria books and a lot of them romanticize death and true love. This book stabs you in the heart. The death scene at the end gets graphic I thought. It might be the translator, but I have a feeling it was Flaubert. Not only does it go into deal how Madame Bovary starts vomiting blood from the arsenic, but you also witness her dying in her bed. Honestly, it feels like someone just actually died finishing the novel.

I think this Madame Bovary is a relatable character and book in today's world too. Some people might think this book is sexist for killing off the female lead, but n reality it not sexist at all. Inn fact, I knew someone almost exactly like Madame Bovary. She was unhappy with her life, her husband cheated on her, she lost custody of her child, and instead of talking to people about her problems and getting help, she decided to take her life too. As depressing as this book makes people feel, I think it's important to know stuff like this happens more than we think. And like Madame Bovary's husband, I think the best thing anyone can do is just move on with their life and make the best of things.

I think people should read this book because it's a classic and it makes you think about other people. However, I have warned you that this is nothing light, plot wise. Don't be fooled by the title being a woman's name, it's not a feminist book and nor is the main character likable. It's simply a book about life as if someone is looking out a street window.

Note: I suggest getting the Lydia Davis translation. She seemed to make this book more readable for modern English speaking folks.

[jwhenderson_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Gustave Flaubert famously declared "No lyricism, no digressions, personality of the author absent", when commenting to his friend and literary confidant Louis Bouilhet about his tone of writing Madame Bovary. That is the hallmark of Flaubert's style and the aim of his hard work writing slowly to make sure he had just the right words. He became his characters, entered into their lives and dreamt their dreams. This resulted in the masterpiece that has become a classic of French literature.The story is one of a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. And in the psychological details portrayed by the author, for example in chapter seven: "for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart." This, only one of many instances of the psychology of Madame Bovary and Flaubert's continuing search for le mot juste (the right word). Demonstrating the truth of Keats's dictum about truth and beauty, Flaubert achieves a mood of 'aesthetic mysticism' that has seldom been reached by others. The result is one that we as readers can enjoy and marvel at the power of his words.

[doryfish-1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Clearly the only way I can get myself to read one of the books in my continually growing to-be-read pile is for there to be a movie coming out. Get on it Hollywood, there are about 60 books I still need to get through.

Disclaimers: I read a translation due to my French being nonexistent, but the original is supposed to be exquisite. I don't have to warn about spoilers in a review about something published in 1856, do I?

Madame Bovary is one of those classics in which the elements that were once fresh and shocking are now cliched. Emma Bovary is unhappily married to a devoted but dull country doctor, Charles. Bored with her duties as a wife and mother, she fantasizes about a life full of romance and pleasure, similar to what she's read about in popular novels. Emma futilely chases these dreams by having love affairs and buying expensive items on credit. Both her lovers grow tired of her, and her debts bring about her husband's ruin. Emma swallows arsenic and dies an excruciating death.

It's said that Gustave Flaubert does not judge Emma, and in fact that's partially why the book was banned and he landed in an obscenity trial. But I don't think I agree with that. Isn't making your character a silly, shallow woman and then having her downfall stem from being silly and shallow pretty judgy in of itself? I've read a lot of books about doomed women and unlike most of them, Emma has no redeeming features. In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy seemed to actually like his heroine. I did not not get that feeling in Madame Bovary.

[nx74defiant · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I really enjoyed this. I found it a rather quick read. Emma Bovary has a lot of dreams. She doesn't care for reality. She wants romance, passion, beautiful clothes and life. Her quest for the fantasy she thinks she deserves leads to disaster.

[alexrichman_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Fair play, Flaubert - this holds up very well! Still thoughtful and funny after all these years, and that's ignoring how groundbreaking it was at the time. The novel (ho ho) approach has become so commonplace that it's actually hard to appreciate when reading it now. That being said, you can certainly appreciate this as a fine, fun novel in and of itself.

[eoin-311239 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The kind of book that uses "spaded" as a transitive verb and it works. (How to judge classics in translation? The voice is so far from Davis' own work (as well as her Proust) that one assumes the translation is impeccable. What struck me most was how idiotic, provincial, and fixed the characters were regarded by the narrative voice. Still, pretty good for a first novel circa 1856. The structure is, of course, flawless. Worth it for the opening scene of poor Bovary in school.)

[debbiemccauley-2 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Written in 1857. Emma, a doctor's wife, is lonely and bored and has affairs with Rodolphe and Léon which are both ill-fated. In her disillusionment she has a taste of arsenic with the usual outcome. Okay, but showing it's age.

[oacevedo-792047 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I never quite understood Madame Bovary, whether the book or the character. Have I missed something in the translation I read many years ago? (Likewise, the movie left me betrayed as a lover of period dramas.) Flaubert is unquestioningly a superb writer, though, and perhaps one day I can try again.

[jackmassa · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

English translation by Merloyd Lawrence. Fantastique.

[klayman-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I started the book only because I suddenly ran out of books to read, but the first few chapters grabbed me and brought me on an exciting, as well as unexpexted, ride.
I was expecting a corny romance and I found myself in the obscure and a bit scary depths of a woman's mind.

I can't say I could sympathise with Madame Bovary herself, but the book has been a real thrill.

[kristelh_15 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I read this in college and again in 2009. I didn't review it? Hard to believe but my thoughts include; I really did not like Emma but then I did not like her husband either. It is a classic however.

[ldvoorberg · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Lost in the translation of time and culture? Okay, scandalous because of her affairs, but her abject financial sense was more problematic, to me. Were the two "sins" linked or equally representative of her poor judgement? and why the opening school room scene with Charles, if he's not even the main character? I don't think I got this one.

[soylentgreen23 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

A classic. What else can one say? Oh yes, it's actually an enjoyable read as well as being supposedly one of the best books in history.

[calavari · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Read for college. I didn't so much enjoy it as much as I appreciated it existence. Bovary is not a likeable character for me, but I understood where she was. She is one of those characters that make me wonder about the lives of women back when they were written and how many would have been better off had they been allowed to make their own way in the world.

[mamashepp · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

What the heck is the big deal about this book? I just wanted to shake Emma Bovary. Suck it up sister. No body made you marry your husband. Nobody made you run up all that debt. And why do I care about the agriculture "fair" and some of the other things that Flaubert dwelt on?

[leslie398 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I read about half of this but every page was a struggle so I am giving up. Maybe someday I will return to this but for now, I am considering this as "read"!It is difficult for me to pinpoint why I struggled so much with this -- Flaubert is clearly a good writer, the descriptions are vivid, and I have some sympathy for (some) characters. But the book in print sends me to sleep; the audiobook causes my mind to wander and even the movie version bored me. Perhaps it is the pace...

[engpunk77 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I didn't think this was that spectacular.

[russellbittner · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Flaubert’s care with language is legendary. Few people — even native English speakers — who pay serious attention to World Literature haven’t heard the stories of how Flaubert would work painstakingly at every sentence to make sure even the sound of it was as close to perfection as he could possibly get. While this characteristic is a given among most poets (a “given,” but not necessarily a “gotten” among many contemporary poets), it’s relatively rare among novelists. But then, even someone of François Mauriac’s authority once said that “every great novelist is first of all a great poet.”

Consequently, to translate Flaubert is a daunting task for any native English-speaker. While I had neither the benefit of the original nor other translations to compare with Alan Russell’s, his translation, in my estimation, does the job both ‘adequately and sufficiently.’ (‘Adequate and sufficient,’ by the way, is no small praise coming from a former philosophy student.)

Madame Bovary is a classic not only of French literature, but also of World Literature — and rightfully so. The story itself is not particularly extraordinary. It is rather Flaubert’s telling of it that makes it a classic.

Just as Anna is the eminently memorable focal point of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Emma is what remains behind in stark detail in the reader’s mind after feasting on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Your library will never be complete with a copy of Madame Bovary. And your reading pleasure will never be consummated without reading the book, start to finish.

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[cyderry · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The story of a young woman who is filled with romantic dreams and discontent over the how her life has transpired.I didn't care for the story or the characters. It may have been about the period that it was written in.

[bhutton_10 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Had to force myself to finish it, but glad I did. The story may be about nothing but the prose and themes are brilliant and subtle. A book that has stayed with me far more than I thought it would.