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Madame Bovary
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Series: Modern Library Classics
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ISBN10: 0812985206
ISBN13: 9780812985207
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: Aug 13 2013
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.97 Width: 4.66 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780812985207
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: Aug 13 2013
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.97 Width: 4.66 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, Emma Bovary, c'est moi. In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert's peerless text and, by extension, the author himself. Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery scandalized France when Madame Bovary was first published. Today, the heartbreaking story of Emma's financial ruin remains just as compelling. Translator Adam Thorpe, an accomplished author in his own right, pays careful attention to the complex music of Flaubert's language, with its elegant, finely wrought sentences and closely observed detail. This exquisite Modern Library edition is sure to set a new standard for an enduring classic. Praise for Adam Thorpe's translation of Madame Bovary
What leaves me reeling with each rereading (and Adam Thorpe's new translation is, pardon the pun, to die for) is the use of language. There can be no doubt as to the reason for Flaubert's brain popping at the top of the stairs when he was fifty-eight. He broke it scouring for perfect sentences, words, le mot juste.--Russell Kane, The Independent Flaubert described his great work as a poem, so it is fitting that a poet and novelist of Thorpe's stature should turn his hand to it.--Robin Robertson, The Herald (Scotland)
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