In this landmark translation, Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of a style that has long beguiled readers of French, giving new life in English to the book that redefined the novel as an art form. Today the novel is considered the first masterpiece of realist fiction. When published in 1857, Madame Bovary was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for its heroine. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Motherhood proves to be a burden religion is only a brief distraction. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. His legs, in blue stockings, looked out from beneath yellow trousers, drawn tight by braces, He wore stout, ill-cleaned, hob-nailed boots.Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, and directed by Sophie BarthesĮmma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Although he was not broad-shouldered, his short school jacket of green cloth with black buttons must have been tight about the arm-holes, and showed at the opening of the cuffs red wrists accustomed to being bare. His hair was cut square on his forehead like a village chorister’s he looked reliable, but very ill at ease. The ‘new fellow,’ standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly be seen, was a country lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.’
‘Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care he’ll be in the second. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice. Download the free Audible app to listen on your iOS, Android, or Windows.
The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Madame Bovary (Audio Download): Gustave Flaubert, Jenny Agutter, CSA Word. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ‘new fellow,’ not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
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