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Madame Bovary
- 150th Anniversary
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
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.
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- M. Peters
- 07-02-22
Not Lydia Davis’s translation?
I enjoyed this and the performance is good although sometimes a bit rushed perhaps. My main issue is that it says on audible that this is the version translated by Lydia Davis but the audio seems to disagree, mentioning a different translator. For someone like me, who is interested in her work, that’s rather annoying.
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