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"Why,
for Heaven's sake, did I marry?"
The following books will introduce you to Emma Bovary, who
said these words in Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
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- Flaubert, Gustave. Madame
Bovary (Norton Critical Edition; Paul de Man,
Trans.). Norton, 1965.
- Flaubert's tale of this born seductress trapped
in a dull village with a dull husband defined the
techniques of the modern novel.
- Vargas Llosa, Mario. The
Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Helen
Lane, Trans.). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
1986.
- This Peruvian novelist and one-time presidential
candidate confesses his lifelong love affair with
the character of Emma Bovary and pays eloquent
tribute to the novel that gave her such
passionate life.
- Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's
Parrot. Vintage, 1990.
- Barnes' essays on Flaubert's artistry are as
idiosyncratic as his subject. See the chapter on
"Emma Bovary's Eyes," which uses her
ambiguous eye-color as the catalyst for his
observations.
- Bloom, Harold (Ed.). Emma
Bovary (Major Literary Characters). Chelsea House,
1993.
- Critical extracts and essays introduce the reader
to major critical responses to this character.
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