London Review of Books: Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert (part one)
Gustave Flaubert recalled in a letter that the critic Sainte-Beuve compared his style to a surgeon’s scalpel, an image taken from 'Madame Bovary'. This was not a compliment: Sainte-Beuve was anxious ...
Brooding and moody from the outset, director Sophie Barthes’ “Madame Bovary” makes many changes to Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 debut novel, streamlining Emma Bovary’s tale of want and woe. Emma is here ...
Does the world need another adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s groundbreaking 1856 classic “Madame Bovary,” of which the author famously said, “Emma Bovary, c’est moi”? I say, “Pourquoi pas?” Sophie ...
More than 160 years after its publication, 'Madame Bovary' still feels startlingly modern. Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine, Emma Bovary, remains one of literature’s most painfully recognisable ...
Avec Bovary Madame, Christophe Honoré revisite l’œuvre de Gustave Flaubert entre respect du texte et liberté absolue. Rencontre. Dont un acte dans un cirque qu’elle a rejoint après sa fuite, où Emma ...
London Review of Books: Who's afraid of realism? ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert (part two)
The TV series may be cancelled, but if you’re still hankering for a desperate housewife you can’t do better than Madame Bovary. The 1856 French classic novel by Gustave Flaubert seems so current that ...
The Globe and Mail: Book review: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
I have read English translations of Madame Bovary four times now, and until this one, by Lydia Davis, I always appreciated Gustave Flaubert's novel with a somewhat removed feeling - stamped it as ...