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Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Fiona Glascott
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Fiona Glascott, star of Brooklyn, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

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Horrible to listen to

Choose another version of this audible book to listen to. The narrator's possibly speaks French; to show off the authenticity of her accent, she takes a pause before each word in French (names, phrases, place names, money etc) - a brief space to say the word in her best French ; this wierd interruption becomes increasingly irritating and gives the words in French a weight which halts the narrative. Coupled with the way she does men's voices, her range of comic voices for the characters, a random click of her tongue at certain points, and her silly inflection when she is trying to sound serious or portentous - eventually you are listening just to her voice, and all of Flaubert's brilliantly constructed sentences, become a vessel for the way she speaks.

The book is irreproacheably a classic and truly brilliant

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