The TV series may be cancelled, but if you’re still hankering for a desperate housewife you can’t do better than Madame Bovary. The 1856 French classic novel by Gustave Flaubert seems so current that ...
The Globe and Mail: Book review: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
I have read English translations of Madame Bovary four times now, and until this one, by Lydia Davis, I always appreciated Gustave Flaubert's novel with a somewhat removed feeling - stamped it as ...
There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...
The Globe and Mail: Madame Bovary: Adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel misses mark
Austin American-Statesman: Review of Lydia Davis' new translation of Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'
"A good sentence in prose," Gustave Flaubert wrote, "should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable." How daunting a task, then, faces the translator of Flaubert's taut, luminous classic, "Madame ...
Filmmakers have been trying to capture Madame Bovary on the screen ever since the movies learned to talk. But, although film technology has improved, the challenge of giving a good account of Gustave ...
I didn't like Madame Bovary when I first encountered the book as a teenager. The story of a suicide of a doctor's wife in rural 1840s Normandy seemed too banal for me. Like many others, I didn't ...
French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) studied law, but he was born to be a novelist. A diagnosis of epilepsy forced him to abandon his legal education, which conveniently gave him the ...