![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, and directed by Sophie Barthes.Įmma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. ![]()
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