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Titolo: Madame Bovary
Autore: Gustave Flaubert
Narratore: Marco Scala
Formato: Unabridged
Durata: 17 hrs and 15 mins
Lingua: Italiano
Data di pubblicazione: 06-08-11
Editore: Club degli Audiolettori
Categoria: Classics, World Literature
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Il capolavoro di Flaubert, per cui fu accusato di immoralità, che racconta l'insoddisfazione e l'irrequietudine della seconda moglie di Charles Bovary.
Flaubert's masterpiece, for which he was accused of immorality, which tells of the dissatisfaction and restlessness of the second wife of Charles Bovary.
Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.
Recensioni dei membri:
Madame Bovary
While initially I found the book difficult for engagement, I learned, about 3/4 of the way through, that this is a book with much to be appreciated. The characters appear flat and trivial, stereotypical, really, but this is purposeful. The characters represent ideas or modes of thought rather than human beings. Madame Bovary is Romanticism, Homais is Enlightenment, and Charles, while in many ways the most flat in regards to opinions and passions, actually appears to be the most human without an undying subscription to any one idea. If anything, Charles is the picture of naive love for Madame Bovary. So, the book has a layer beyond the plot, the battle between Romanticism and Enlightenment, and Flaubert's journey with this is intriguing and telling. Finally, Flaubert is a master of syntax and vocabulary. The sentences alone are enough to appreciate this book. Flaubert truly mastered art for art's sake. I believe he did himself proud.
finds her life boring and her relationship unfulfilling and seeks fulfillment in both ...
I mainly picked this book because I had seen references to the story and especially to Emma Bovary in other works so I wanted to familiarize myself with the story. It's an older work but the themes resonate today...the young woman who marries for the wrong reasons, finds her life boring and her relationship unfulfilling and seeks fulfillment in both spending beyond her and her husband's means and in extramarital affairs. And there's the mother-in-law who never really approves of her, the sleazy self-aggrandizing apothecary with whom her husband, Dr. Charles Bovary, characterized as a somewhat plodding, unimaginative fellow, spends much time, apparently oblivious to his wife's desperation. I felt it was a book that deals with the effect relationships and expectations influence the direction people take in life including, and perhaps especially, the unfortunate choices people make.
a classic French soap opera
I love French classics because they are so expressive and alive. This is my first Flaubert classic. Like his great contemporaries, Hugo, Dumas, Maupassant, Flauber's Madam Bovary is a magnificent French soap opera written with great style. His exquisite choice of words and style is reminiscent of one sitting down to a 10 course French cuisine. Course after course of delicious dishes to keep us engrossed in rural France life in the 18th century when horse drawn carts were cabs and conveniences for impulsive acts passions. Emma Bovary, like all of us who are made of flesh and blood and desire passion, fell prey to concupiscence. But it was his careless extravagance and bad financial management that eventually destroyed her. But which one us is devoid of fleshy lusts? Some of us, however, are thankfully rational enough to avoid harming our close ones by being discreet when tasting the forbidden fruit. There is sadness at the end with Charles died of a broken heart after discovering his dead Emma's protracted infidelity. Emma should have destroyed those letters to spare Charles.