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Madame Bovary

(Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers)

By Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm (INT)/ Overstall, Margaret/ Bowie, Gustave/ Mauldon, Mark Overstall, Mark Haddon

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| Hardcover | 9780192805492

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Henry James once said of "Madame Bavary, "Emma Bovary's poor adventures are a tragedy for the very reason that in a world unsuspecting, unassisting, unconsoling, she has herself in distil the rich and the rare. Ignorant, unguided, ridden by the very nature and mixture of her consciousness, she makesContinue

Henry James once said of "Madame Bavary, "Emma Bovary's poor adventures are a tragedy for the very reason that in a world unsuspecting, unassisting, unconsoling, she has herself in distil the rich and the rare. Ignorant, unguided, ridden by the very nature and mixture of her consciousness, she makes of the business an inordinate failure, a failure which in its turn makes for Flaubert the most pointed, the most "told of ." Along with Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina, Flaubert's tragic novel stands as the ultimate portrayal of infidelity in Western literature. Inciting a backlash of immorality charges, the novel was an overwhelming success, and today retains the power to generate empathy and compassion for one of society's lowest stations. [예스24 제공]

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    One needs to read several versions to realize how different translations affect interpretation ... A good book to use for applying the Lacanian Paradigm/critical analysis

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