Madame Bovary
150th Anniversary
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Claire Bloom
About this listen
Set amid the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity.
Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escape the author's searing castigation, and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love.
©1992 Mildred Marmur (P)1992 Penguin HighBridge AudioCritic reviews
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- S. Breheny
- 11-30-18
delightful and dramatic
This audible book was delightful to listen to thanks to a very easy to listen to performance by Claire Bloom. Such a descriptive story of life in the 19th century, including the angst of romantics and pragmatists searching for fulfillment, with the inevitable resulting drama. I found it thoughtful and refreshing.
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- uniform hippie
- 12-01-19
best translation, incredible narration
Lydia Davis is arguably the best French translator of literary fiction of our era. Her rendition of Flaubert's masterpiece breathes new life into this timeless work and for the first time English readers will come away reeling in the wit, humor, genius and tragic comedy of the book that is Madame Bovary. Claire Bloom's narration is an interpretive masterpiece: rarely do readers offer such nuance as to make the words themselves sublime. Hands down a gem among audiobooks!
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Jacinta M Hogan
- 04-21-21
Avoid
If you try to read along with the book, you get lost and can't find what is being said.
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