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Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur - translator, Robin Morgan - introduction
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
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 For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation.©1992 Mildred Marmur; (P)1992 Penguin HighBridge Audio Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction Romance French Women

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"Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron." -- John Updike
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I enjoyed this and the performance is good although sometimes a bit rushed perhaps. My main issue is that it says on audible that this is the version translated by Lydia Davis but the audio seems to disagree, mentioning a different translator. For someone like me, who is interested in her work, that’s rather annoying.

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