Margaret Cohen (1) (1958–)
Forfatter af Madame Bovary [Norton Critical Edition]
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I enjoyed the book, Flaubert’s writing is rich in description, setting, and "if the carriage is a rocking, don’t be a stopping" detail that put the book on many a “don’t read this list” over the years.
I don’t know think there was one character I truly liked. Emma was not a very likable character—she did not care for her husband, or her child, and seems to only care for her own feelings. She falls in love too easily. She is passionate about the wrong things, and she gives little thought to consequences until it is too late. Her husband is clueless. Her lovers are opportunists. Her husband’s mother is unlikeable. But then who doesn’t like reading about bad things happening to unlikeable people? Or maybe I like the is just me who has also been turning into the Depp/Heard trial all this week, or why I read novels by Thomas Hardy, clearly I have a thing for unlikeable characters.
Henry James wrote: “Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment…. The work is a classic because the thing, such as it is, is ideally done, and because it shows that in such doing eternal beauty may dwell.” (Source: The Novel 100)
I’ve found this title on no less than five recommendation lists and I’m sure I’ll find more:
1001 Books to Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall
“Reading List for the College Bound found” in The Literature Lover’s Book of Lists.
Books published by Signet Classics
The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time by Daniel S. Burt (ranked #7)
Mentioned by Amor Towles in an interview in The Writer’s Library by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager… (mere)