Madame Bovary

I had read letters from Flo Baird to his great friend Marie Colette, I guess her name was, and he was talking about the difficulty faced with Madame Bovary, which is that it's about a woman facing boredom in a provincial town.

A Drinking Life: A Memoir 1994

Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert's theory; he pronounced L'Education Sentimentale "elaborately and massively dreary"; and he briefly dismissed Salammbo as an accomplished work of erudition.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert's theory; he pronounced L'Education

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

Henry James called Madame Bovary a brilliantly successful application of Flaubert’s theory; he pronounced

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

Favorite Books Of 2010: Jacki Lyden Chooses A New 'Madame Bovary'

NPR Topics: News 2010

Flaubert is another writer from an earlier age whose work should be read by everyone, and those who think that the purple prose of a Dickens is nineteenth century writing might get a shock when faced with the clarity of the language in Madame Bovary.

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New editions of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu have pushed overworked translators – a shy breed – into the spotlight.

The worldwide upsurge in demand for English versions of foreign bestsellers, coupled with the growing power of Google Translate, suggest we may be closer than ever to escaping the age of Babel 2011

In "Madame Bovary," boredom—or rather, ennui—is a cultural disease, of which Emma's affairs are a symptom.

A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011

One of my most cherished possessions is my grandmother's red leather-bound copy of Madame Bovary.

Danny Miller: Celebrate World Read Aloud Day! Danny Miller 2011

One of my most cherished possessions is my grandmother's red leather-bound copy of Madame Bovary.

Danny Miller: Celebrate World Read Aloud Day! Danny Miller 2011