Gustave Flaubert | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:54:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Gustave Flaubert | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Thinking of “Madame Bovary,” by Gustave Flaubert. https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/06/thinking-of-madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:15:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/08/06/thinking-of-madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/ “Madame Bovary” is exquisite, it is perfection, and it is also exquisitely painful. I do not think I will ever read it again. It is so perfectly rendered a work of fiction that it breaks the heart. Emma Bovary is a silly woman of imaginations and pretensions. She marries a simple plodding doctor who thinks […]

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