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Titel: Madame Bovary
Autor:: Gustave Flaubert
Erzähler: Mercedes Echerer
Format: Abridged
Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 51 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-23-10
Herausgeber: Preiser Records
Kategorien: Classics, World Literature
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Es waren nicht die altbekannten Themen von Liebe, Enttäuschung, Ehebruch, Verbrechen und Selbstmord, welche die staatlichen Ordnungshüter auf den Plan gerufen hatten, sondern die ironische Art der Darstellung, die der Obrigkeit mißfiel. Flaubert-Zitate wie "das Glück ist eine Lüge, vom Teufel erfunden, um uns zu täuschen", waren allem Anschein nach eine Gefahr für junge Mädchen und junge Frauen. "Die Bovary bin ich", jene fälschlicherweise immer wieder zitierten Worte hat Gustave Flaubert nachweislich nie gesagt. Im Gegenteil: er indentifizierte sich zeitlebens nicht mit diesem Werk, betrachtete es als das Schwächste, das er je geschrieben hatte, und wollte kurz vor seinem Tod sogar jedwede Neuauflage verbieten. Trotz allem wurde Madame Bovary zu seinem meistgelesenen Roman.
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Mitglieder Bewertungen:
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.