Madame Bovary

Escrito por Gustave Flaubert

Narrado por Audiolibros Colección

Cuando la joven y bella Emma Rouault accede a casarse con Charles Bovary confía en que su vida se convierta en una novela romántica como las que devora sin parar. Sin embargo, la cruda y monótona realidad de su día a día la hunde en una perpetua depresión de la que sólo es capaz de salir espoleada por amantes esporádicos que oculta a su esposo. Pero la incapacidad para mantener a estos amantes a su lado y el regreso constante a la monotonía y el aburrimiento convertirán la esperada novela romántica de Madame Bovary en una tragedia.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Audiolibros Colección
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2023
• ISBN: 9798889441137

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was born in Rouen, France. Published in 1857, Madame Bovary gained popularity after a failed attempt to ban it for obscenity. Salammbô (1862), Sentimental Education (1869), and the political play The Candidate (1874) met with criticism and misconceptions. Only after the publication of Three Tales in 1877 was Flaubert's genius publicly acknowledged.

Comentarios para Madame Bovary

[paulagalvan-323293 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This classic tale—first published in 1857—about a dissatisfied woman is a sad story of betrayal and infidelity. When Dr. Charles Bovary marries Mademoiselle Emma Rouault, he's head-over-heels in love. However, his new bride is shallow, selfish, and restless. Her wantonness and ungrateful disregard for her comfortable life as a doctor's wife are her undoing. She scandalously enters into several affairs, shamelessly deceiving her husband and living a secret life well beyond her means. Eventually, this leads to financial ruin and, finally, to suicide. In 1857, this book was considered lurid and outrageous, and the author, Gustave Flaubert, was sued in court (but acquitted) for publishing this compelling work. By today's standards, the story is, unfortunately, relatively commonplace.

[kwskultety · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Somewhat heavy on the description, but always interesting. I especially liked the way Flaubert captured the disgust she had for her husband, and all the petty ways he annoyed her...and how she grew weary of adultery. My favorite line was about how adultery can be as mundane as marriage.
I picked this up because of "Madame Bovary's Daughter" and was glad I did. To me, she was a sad figure, always searching for something just out of reach, and perhaps not even attainable. Interesting how human nature has not changed much since this was written.

[beauxarts79 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

SPOILERS AHEAD: This is the second translation I have ever read and, if memory serves me correctly, this translation is superior; it is gorgeously written. Is it a product of my having grown older since my first experience with this novel or is Emma objectively insufferable? Whether or not she would be diagnosed manic depressive, I leave to someone else to decide, but she strikes me as simultaneously vicious and imbecilic, in the way a small child is by nature of its inability to reason or control its passions. Charles, meanwhile, is Moliere's Pierrot -- the pitiable cuckold. Certainly, the novel is a masterpiece of realism, most strikingly in the vividly grotesque descriptions of Emma's protracted death. And while some readers cringe at the apparent moral ambiguity of the narrative voice, I find Flaubert (in this translation at least) even-handed in his treatment of the material: his articulation of Emma's worldview is demonstrably not a justification of it.

[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.

[kjuliff-519887 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

As relevant now as it was when I first read it 50 years ago. Poor silly Emma!

[lethalmauve · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Flaubert’s Madame Bovary sits askew between fading religious conscience and exacerbating moral corruption. Initially deluded by the fairytale idea of marriage, together with the assumed social status that accompanies it, Emma Bovary soon learns of the reality made worse by her husband’s glaring flaws of extreme meekness and dullness. With this infuriating reality, Madame Bovary—imprisoned and choked—can’t make room for compromise and so she turns and looks for doors to leave. Once, she mourns having a daughter due to the financial and social restrictions of the fairer sex. On others, she creates the doors which lead to temporary respite and pleasures that doubly delude her for their potential promises. Adultery and extravagance delight in their volatility. And as debts and heartbreaks accumulate in this almost soap opera, Flaubert never forgets the suspense of being caught nor the complexity of his characters’ emotions. He surprises chapter by chapter. The desperation and motivation sharpen the narrative; the marriage is obscurely dysfunctional, the social status crumbles before it has a chance to raise itself. Yet no one is entirely blameworthy and villainous here. No secret can be hidden forever here. These are the cost of lies; their inevitable repercussions. Madame Bovary revolves around the multifaceted intentions of selfishness. The sadness that clings upon its edges falls down the stairwell of poisonous regrets. Both a religiously predisposed and lethally tragic classic.

[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.

[crazymamie · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Juliet Stevenson is one of my favorite narrators, and she does not disappoint here in bringing this story to life. I loved the writing, and I wish I could find out who did the translation, but even in the PDF materials, that is not provided. The characters are not really likable, and yet one cannot help feeling sympathetic to them. Emma, the lady named in this famous title is a desperate housewife - she is bored and unhappy and unfulfilled. In her quest to find happiness, she covets the wrong things and is easily mislead. She and her husband Charles are too distracted by other things to truly pay attention to one another or to their mounting bills. This allows others to take advantage of them, and we can do nothing but watch as a clever web is woven around them by the manipulative merchant Lheureux and the pharmacist Homais, each acting separately and in their own interests. The author does an excellent job of slowly building the tension until the reader knows that disaster has to be just around the corner - I was amazed at how caught up in the story I got even though I did not particularly like Emma or Charles. I still wanted to know what happened and how it played out. It is hard to believe that this is a debut novel - my only quibble is that the ending feels slightly rushed.

[sandrabrower · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

OH Gustave, you sure do know how to turn a sentence. Your words are flowery and descriptive. Still that darn Emma could never enjoy the happiness and good life she had and always had to keep searching for that "story-like" romance. Life is not like a romance novel, sorry, Emma.

The only thing I did not like about this book was the 5 second wrap up at the end. Couldn't Gustave just wrote another book from Charles' point of view and tell us the story of what happened to poor little Berthe? That I would've liked better than the 5 second wrap up that gave me no ending...

[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.

[deltaqueen50 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I have been reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert by installments from Daily Lit since November, 2018. I was very happy to reach the end of this book although it certainly held my attention throughout the reading, but there was an inevitable sense of doom building. The story, set in 1840’s Normandy, is of a doctor’s unhappy and unfaithful wife. I found this a very sad tale, as to me, it was obvious that Emma was married to a dull man and had no outlet available for her other than adultery. Women of a certain class did not work, or really have much to occupy their time, other than oversee the servants. Emma Bovary was a woman of passion, in fact shopping excited her every bit as much as sex. Yes, she was beautiful, somewhat selfish and immature but I still felt a great deal of sympathy for her. It was hard not to emphasize with a woman whose happiness was so out of tune with her situation.Did I have sympathy for her husband, Charles, yes, indeed. He tried to provide Emma with what he thought he wanted and she carefully never revealed her unhappiness in the life he provided her. Charles was not the brightest of men, he was quiet and easily satisfied, didn’t have a romantic bone in his body and apparently never questioned their life or situation until it was too late. The Boyarys were a mismatched couple and the marriage, right from the start seemed doomed to failure.Flaubert has written an excellent morality tale that still stands today. Our happiness does not rely on anyone or anything other than ourselves. Emma Bovary paid a heavy price for her longings to escape the caged life that she lead and this book reminds me that woman can still fall into the same patterns as Emma Bovary even though we have more choices today in our search for a fulfilling life.

[jackmassa · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

English translation by Merloyd Lawrence. Fantastique.

[rmckeown_9 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert remains one of the most important pieces of 19th century French literature. In Lydia Davis’s introduction to her new translation of Bovary, she quotes Flaubert, “‘Yesterday evening, I started my novel. Now I begin to see stylistic difficulties that horrify me. To be simple is no small matter.’ This is what Flaubert wrote to his friend, lover, and fellow writer Louise Colet on the evening of September 20, 1851, and the novel he was referring to was Madame Bovary. He was just under thirty years old.” (ix). In my Batcheler days, I met a member of the French Language department at The University of Pennsylvania. The details of the event have withered away, but I have not forgotten the 2-3 hours we spent discussing Emma Bovary and her tragic story. Since then, I have read and re-read Bovary too many times to count. I have used it dozens of times in my world literature classes. Now, I have a new translation by Lydia Davis, and I am thrilled--once again with the power of this masterful novel. The story has so much minute detail, his prose is magnificent, and this new translation has rekindled all my passion for Emma. Instead of robbing my first-time readers of this story, I have selected an interesting passage for comparison with my original copy translated by Margaret Cohen. I begin with Cohen’s version. “The atmosphere of the ball was heavy; the lamps were growing dim. Guests were flocking to the billiard room. A servant got upon a chair and broke the window-panes. At the crash of the glass, Madame Bovary turned her head and saw in the garden the faces of peasants pressed against the window looking in at them. Then the memory of the Bertaux came back to her. She saw the farm again, the muddy pond, her father in his apron under the apple trees, and she saw herself again as formerly, skimming with her finger the cream off the milk-pans in the dairy. But in the splendor of the present hour her past life, so distinct until then, faded away completely, and she almost doubted having lived it. She was there; beyond the ball was only shadow overspreading all the rest. She was eating a maraschino ice that she held with her left hand in a silver-gilt cup, her eyes half-closed and the spoon between her teeth” (Cohen (45-46).Here is Lydia Davis’s version. “The air of the ball was heavy; the lamps were growing dim. People were drifting back into the billiard room. A servant climbing up onto a chair broke two windowpanes at the noise of the shattered glass, Madame Bovary turned her head and noticed in the garden, against the window, the faces of country people looking in. Then the memory of Les Bertaux returned to her. She saw the farm again, the muddy pond, her father in a smock under the apple trees, and she saw herself as she used to be, skimming cream with her finger from the pans of milk in the milk house. But under the dazzling splendors of the present hour, her past life, so distinct until now, was vanishing altogether, and she almost doubted that she had ever lived it. She was here; and then, surrounding the ball, there was nothing left but darkness, spread out over all the rest. She was at that moment eating a maraschino ice that she held with her left hand in a silver-gilt shell and half closing her eyes, the spoon between her teeth” (Trans, Davis (44-45)).Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is one of those novels a reader can easily fall in love in a heartbeat. 5 stars for Cohen and Davis.--Chiron, 8/20/18

[kaulsu · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I disliked this book extremely. 1. The woman was held at fault while her lovers (who had many female mistresses), weren’t. 2. There was nothing sympathetic about Emma Bovary. 3. Her husband was a boor. I read it because these classics are free. I admit to never having finished it when I attempted to read it in the 1970s, however I wonder now if I was reading Volume 2?? The book I just finished is “Volume I” and Shane on me for not picking up on that. I cannot even begin to think I will ever pick up the next volume....was Flaubert, like Dickens, paid by the word??I gave it two stars in deference to the many people who have loved the book, the period, the story, and its prose.

[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.

[sturlington_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

A doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.Recently, I read a review of the new translation of Madame Bovary in the New York Times Book Review that suggested that no one could possibly sympathize with, or even like, Emma Bovary, probably one of the most famous characters in literature. The introduction to my copy of the novel intimates the same. But having recently read Madame Bovary, I am completely sympathetic with Emma, even if I don’t condone her actions.All of us, especially those of us who are heavy readers, probably go through a phase of life in which we fantasize an exciting, adventurous future for ourselves, when we are swept up by great passion and every moment trembles with meaning. But then we grow up and discover that life is largely mundane, and most of us make our peace with that and find other means of contentment. However, Emma Bovary couldn’t bring herself to do that. Her relentless attempts to live a storybook fantasy lead her first to the Church, then to adulterous love affairs, then to bankruptcy and, ultimately, self destruction.In many ways, Emma is a feminist figure. In 19th century France, the only choices for a woman of her class were the nunnery or marriage. Emma chose marriage, but when she became bored, she didn’t have the options that her male lovers did: to go to Paris or travel abroad or take another mistress. Perhaps if she had had more choices, she wouldn’t have destroyed herself and her family.It’s not men who seduce Emma, but the novels she reads that lead her to believe that her life could be a passionate one rather than the dreary, day-to-day routine of the small village where her husband is a doctor. If we condemn her for refusing to be satisfied with a mundane life over which she really has no ownership, how are we any different from anyone who has ever insisted that women stay in their place? Certainly, Emma makes terrible choices in her almost hysterical pursuit of something — anything — that can fulfill her. But we can’t fault her for pursuing that.

[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.

[jbarringer-2 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

For a classic novel written by a man, about a fallen woman in European traditional society, this was a surprisingly readable book. There are a lot of topics embedded in the story that would be great for book club discussions and class papers, and the writing style is smooth enough that younger readers may not get too bogged down by the length of this novel.
While I didn't particularly like Emma or any of the other characters in the story, they are well-rounded characters. Emma is a bit of the female equivalent of a playboy, constrained by society but still quite good at dodging responsibility and attracting extra-marital partners. Eventually her lifestyle catches up with her, as it does for many others, male and female, who approach their relationships and their lives the way Emma does, and rather than finally accepting responsibility publicly for her decisions, she takes poison, dying in a rather long, drawn out death scene as overdramatic as much of Emma's other adventures.

[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.

[brakketh-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Brilliant realism with characters throughout who are spiteful and hard to watch,

[gypsysmom_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I had read this book some time in the distant past but when I saw the audiobook available on my library's electronic media site I thought it would be worth a listen. It was but it also bothered me a great deal. The tale is ultimately so tragic for Madame Bovary and her family and it seemed a high price to pay for essentially being an attractive woman. If you don't know the story it is pretty simple but beware spoilers follow. Emma Bovary is a lovely young woman who attracts the attention of a doctor. They marry but Emma is not happy in the small village they live in. So the doctor decides to move to a larger town where Emma attracts the attention of more men. Her first flirtation is quite innocent with the young clerk who lives across the street. However, he leaves to pursue legal studies in Paris and Emma is bereft. She has a child but perhaps due to post-partum depression doesn't seem to bond with the child. Then a wealthy landowner, Rodolphe, notices Emma and woos and wins her. They have a passionate affair and, in time, Emma begs him to run away with her. He agrees but has no intention of doing so. Emma orders clothes and travelling chests incurring quite a debt. When Rodolphe finally sends her a note breaking off their affair she becomes ill. The debts she incurred come due and she has no way of paying them. She goes to Rodolphe to get money from him but he tells her he does not have it. Emma gets arsenic from the chemist, swallows it and dies in agony. Her husband dies soon after, no doubt of a broken heart. The young daughter goes to a cousin who puts her to work in a cotton factory. Although the Bovarys are destroyed, nothing seems to happen to Rodolphe who is the cause of the tragedy really. If Flaubert's intention was to show what disparity existed (and possibly still exists) between men and women then he succeeded admirably.

[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.

[fyrefly98 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Summary: Emma Bovary is stuck in her provincial life. She is married to a successful but dull country doctor, and longs for the city, for the culture and refinement and romance that she does not find in her marriage nor in motherhood. She becomes infatuated with a young law student, but does not show her affections, trying to cling to the image of devoted wife. However, she then allows herself to be seduced by a wealthy man about town, and to run up huge debts trying to live the live she wants, only to find that reality still does not live up to her romantic fantasy. Review: I really, really did not care for this book. I don't know if it's a matter of the writing, or the translation, or the narration, or what, but it just did very little for me. I found the characters flat and unlikable - I felt sorry for Charles (Emma's husband), but that's about it. Emma herself bugged the heck out of me - I get that women in the 1800s didn't have many options, or really any control over their lives, but Emma just seemed so stubbornly flighty and selfish that I wanted to give her a solid kick to the shins. I also didn't really care for the writing itself (again, this may have been the translation more than the writing). The introduction talks about how meticulous Flaubert was, always in search of the perfect word, but in listening to it, I didn't get that at all. The book came across as incredibly wordy and meandering and unnecessarily descriptive of just about everything. I didn't understand the point of some of the lengthy narrative diversions, and even parts of the plot that were important (the whole scheme of buying and selling debt, for example) wasn't entirely clear. Maybe if I had read this in a literature class, or if I spent more time analyzing the structure of the narrative and the significance of some of the details, maybe then I'd have gotten more out of it. But reading it by myself from a character and story-centric point of view? I had a hard time with it, and was glad when it was over. 1.5 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: I don't want to dissuade people from reading the classics, but this one didn't do it for me. You can get much the same story with more compelling characters and in a much shorter package in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

[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.