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I think I would bump this up half a star. The ending was particularly strong. Amery alternates between giving voice to Charles Bovary and literary criticism of Madame Bovary and Flaubert in general. I thought the premise was very cool to have a character critique his representation by his creator. Charles Bovary completely blasts Flaubert in the last chapter telling him he didn’t understand him at all and resents being painted as such loser for all time just because he couldn’t take the time to
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Sep 15, 2020
Taylor Lee
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A strange book, in which the author castigates Flaubert’s treatment of Charles Bovary in fictional memoir, the language of which spills across the page heatedly, and essay. They are interspersed with each other, fiction and essay, such that one piece nonfiction follows a section in which, in narrative, Charles Bovary speaks before the justices and accused at his own court: Emma’s lovers, a legacy of readers, Flaubert himself, and History. Améry’s is an outrage in defense of the resentful, the pe
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Not so good as expected, below my expectations at least.
This "novel-essay" format is just not for me. I couldn't get through it.
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Mar 30, 2018
Juniper
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Jul 25, 2018
sisilia
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Aug 27, 2018
Marie-Therese
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Sep 03, 2018
Kris
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Dec 05, 2018
Lois
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Gavin
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Jan 12, 2019
Kris
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Jul 25, 2019
lisa_emily
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